On Sat, 2025-09-27 at 10:17 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I have the compressed BIOS update file on the windows-10 desktop. > Instructions say to uncompress and copy to a USB stick that "must use > the FAT32/16/12 file system". Question: On that windows-10 (home) > desktop, how do I format the stick to the appropriate file system?
If the USB stick was still factory formatted, it's probably already in a compatible state (particularly if it's not a mega huge sized stick). Though EX-FAT is a common default, these days. I don't use Windows (for over 20 years), so I'm unfamiliar with it. But you used to have some hardware tools that told you properties of connected drives. It might even be possible to just right-click on the drive in the file explorer, now. You could look to see if you can find out how it's currently set up. And you should have formatting options, if you choose to format the stick, that gives you FAT32 as one of the choices. I'm loathe to say just google it, as there's so many written by idiots guides (artificial or human), but this page is from one of the companies that make storage devices, so a bit more trustworthy, and not one of those watch a ten minute video of someone gabbing on about a two minute procedure: https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/formatting-usb-storage-drive-windows -- http://www.CameraTim.com/ Over 30 years experience In Modbury, a suburb north-east of Adelaide, South Australia. For urgent or confidential messages, phone instead of email. Mobile: 0410 930024 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
