Aris groaned, rubbing his temples. He knew exactly what had happened. It was the FAT32 limitation. The USB drive was formatted as FAT32 to be bootable on modern UEFI systems, but FAT32 cannot handle a single file larger than 4 gigabytes. And the install.wim file—the compressed archive containing the entire Windows operating system—was sitting at 4.8GB. It was the single most important file in the installation, and it was too fat to fit through the door.
He watched the progress bar. It crawled. install.wim download
The installation began.
He walked out into the morning light, the silent guardian of the .wim , knowing that somewhere, in a backup folder on his server, that 4.8GB file was waiting for the next time disaster struck. Aris groaned, rubbing his temples
Copying bootmgr ... Done. Copying sources ... Copying install.wim ... The USB drive was formatted as FAT32 to