I rarely do a Win 7 clean install anymore. Today I had to do just that for a co-worker who's machine only has 2GB ram and a slow Atom processor. I decided Win 10 was not for this machine as is. I get one of my USB Thumb drives and use Rufus to make me a Win 7 USB install drive. The only option for a MBR install file system was NTFS. I continued and made the bootable flash drive. I put in in the machine to wipe and when I boot from it I selected the flash drive but it only offered me to boot from the Win 7 that was already on it??? So I go back to my computer and use another program and I tell it to use Fat32 when creating the same Install USB. Guess what..It worked. I have never have had Rufus let me down. My question is: Why didn't the NTFS work? Fat 32 I realize has to be the file system for a UEFI/GPT install but thats not the case here. So what file system does a MBR install of Win 7 do I have to use and why didn't Rufus figure this out?
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