How to install DBAN Dariks Boot and Nuke on an USB flash drive larger than 4. GB and make it bootable on an UEFI equipped PC Disclaimer I am answering my own question. I need to wipe my Windows laptops internal hard drive. I find DBAN per How To Geeks recommendation, but I am having trouble installing it on a 6. GB USB flash drive and make it bootable on an UEFI equipped PC. After downloading DBANs ISO file from Source. A free utility tweaks the Windows ISO image file, thus letting you install whatever version matches your product key. Download Windows 10 Offline Update Redstone 2 via direct Microsofts official links to install Windows 10 offline update without having internet connection. Youve got your collection of Windows ISOs and maybe youve burned installation DVDs or flash drives for them. But why not make yourself a master installation. Forge, I first tried Img. Burn per the recommendation of an earlier How To Geek article. I quickly realized that I misread that article because Img. Burn only burned to optical disks. Next I tried was a tutorial from Toms Hardware. That article suggested using Rufus. It did not specify which file system should I format the flash drive to during Rufus burning setup, so I selected FAT3. However, since the ISO selected in the screenshot was Free. DOS, the screenshot might be for illustration purpose only. In the UEFI, the burned flash drive was shown as UEFI followed by the flash drives name. I moved it to the top of the boot order and tried to boot, but it did not work. Afterwards, I found this question on Super User, where User terdon suggested that to make DBAN bootable, the flash drive should be set up with a single FAT partition. I ran clean in diskpart and reformatted my flash drive with 5. MB of space formatted as FAT and the rest unformatted. However, when I ran through the burning process again, Rufus insisted to format the entire drive for me, and I could only choose FAT3. FAT. I restarted and that unsurprisingly failed to boot. Next I came across this high ranking in Google search results article from a website called Pendrivelinux. Universal USB Installer. It did not seem to be an open source software so I was a bit wary of it. But since I would be wiping my hard drive anyway I downloaded it and installed it. The good thing about this software was that formatting of the flash drive was now optional during the burning process. So I reformatted my drive to FAT and burned DBANs ISO to it, all without issue. But it still failed to boot when I restarted.
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