How to create system image on a usb

[Windows Central Question]

Trying to create a system image of my windows 10 and it will not let me put in on usb says invalid location for system image. How do get a system image on a lexar usb? Please help before my laptop crashes. Thanks

 

[BluWarrior]

USB Flash drives are not large enough to hold a system image. I suppose if you have a small amount of disk usage and a big flash drive you could try to format it to ntfs. Your best bet is to get an external hard drive to back up too.

 

[jim6109]

still usb plenty big so how do I create system image on usb?

 

[BluWarrior]

still usb plenty big so how do I create system image on usb?

Format it as an ntfs drive. (Open File Explorer, Go to "This PC", right click on your flash drive, click format, click restore device defaults FIRST, then under file system set it to NTFS, check quick format, click start, wait for it to finish) Then open backup and restore and attempt to make an image again. If you are not able too I would not be surprised as I am not sure if flash drives are able to be backed up too.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Trying to create a system image of my windows 10 and it will not let me put in on usb says invalid location for system image. How do get a system image on a lexar usb? Please help before my laptop crashes. Thanks

when creating the system image, does it tell you what size is needed?