

#USB DRIVE FORMATTER WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#
How to Fix The USB Drive is Not A Valid Backup LocationĪs a matter of fact, you can use Windows 10 built-in tool Backup and Restore (Windows 7) to create a system image backup for Windows 10.īut if you choose the USB drive as destination, you will very likely get the error: This drive cannot be used to store a system image because it is not formatted with NTFS (if your USB is formated with FAT32).

When you install Windows on a hard drive, a system reserved partition or recovery partition is created to store WinRE, and it takes up about 450MB of space. Usually, you have two ways to restore Windows 10 back to normal if system failure: Recovery Partition, and the Windows 10 system image.

Why Create Windows 10 System Image on USB Flash Drive?
