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> Most people are going to install Windows and Windows works out of the box with secure boot enabled.

Any windows version after windows 10 isn't going to work nicely without extra process if you want to do a usb install. Because the ISO file already exceed FAT 32 4GB limit.

And DVD burner? Who still have them these days?

So most people will going to use one of these 3 party tools. And some of them will use an old version tool, fail, going into support queue.




It will because Microsoft’s own Media Creation Tool splits the .WIM installation image accordingly since Windows 10 came out.[1]

1: This is what the media creation tool essentially does, but automatically: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...


My default method of installing Windows is extracting the ISO file to a FAT partition and that has always worked without trouble for me. The official Microsoft tool does some extra magic to the drive (I think it also fixes the partition table for you) but I've rarely needed to run that.

You don't need to store the entire ISO file on the drive as a 4GiB+ file, as long as the contents can be extracted onto FAT32 the installer can be booted.




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