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Why I cannot copy install.wim from Windows 7 ISO to USB (in linux env)

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Problem

I need to make a USB bootable disk of Windows 7 ISO. My USB is formatted to NTFS, ISO is not corrupt. I can copy install.wim elsewhere but I cannot copy it to USB. I even tried rsync. rsync error Stat for windows.vim fdisk -l hdparm -I

Error Output

sources/install.wim
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
rsync: write failed on "/media/52E866F5450…

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Fix for: Why I cannot copy install.wim from Windows 7 ISO to USB (in linux env)

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Well, the reason for this problem is because the file is >4.0 GB in size and the USB is formatted in FAT32 format. The max file size for FAT32 is 4GB. The max file size for FAT16 is only 2GB. So how do you fix this problem? Well there are two ways y…

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