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I recently upgraded to using a faster USB stick for Ventoy. For some reason, Windows 10 wouldn't install from my newer, faster USB stick, but would install from my older, slower USB stick. I haven't yet figured out what the problem is.

When booting the Windows ISO, the boot process would never progress past the screen showing the blue windows icon on a black background.

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Windows uses some weird install process where it needs two partitions for the install media. Basically the whole installation is too big for FAT32 so IIRC the way to have it work is to split the ISO in two having the bootable part on one partition and a lot of the installation content on another.

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

I wonder if it's related to being a USB 2 stick rather than 3? Different drivers and perhaps UEFI handles it differently

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