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whenitends

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Oct 1, 2008
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Boot Camp wants a FAT formatted USB drive, do I have to format my entire 128GB flash drive, or can I partition it? Possibly irrelevant, but my plan was to put the Windows image on the USB too, I have DVD-Rs (and probably the last iMac with an internal optical drive!) but it seems to be more of a hassle. Plus I feel like I'm spinning dust all around the inside.

The OS I want to use is Windows 7

My hardware:

Mid 2011 27" iMac

PNY USB3 128GB
 

yjchua95

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Apr 23, 2011
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Boot Camp wants a FAT formatted USB drive, do I have to format my entire 128GB flash drive, or can I partition it? Possibly irrelevant, but my plan was to put the Windows image on the USB too, I have DVD-Rs (and probably the last iMac with an internal optical drive!) but it seems to be more of a hassle. Plus I feel like I'm spinning dust all around the inside.

The OS I want to use is Windows 7

My hardware:

Mid 2011 27" iMac

PNY USB3 128GB

Yes, you can format it in a separate partition.
 
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