It galled me to no end to have to shrink the partition on the drives from 8GB and 16GB down to 3.8GB (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble ). I needed a few more drives in that body style but the smallest I could find was 16GB. I had used some older USB 2.0 drives for that that ranged in size from 1-4GB that would boot just fine so I tried shrinking the partition on an 8GB drive to 3.8 GB.

I had a couple of extra USB 3.1 Gen 1 drives knocking about that were 8GB but, when I installed Win PE with Macrium Reflect embedded on them they wouldn't boot. I recently needed some USB drives for use as Macrium Reflect recovery drives. The most I will ever use at any one time will be 1-2GB. I bought a bunch of skinny Kingston USB thumb drives so I could use two of them side by side in my notebooks (the USB ports are too close together for most USB thumb drives to fit side by side) the smallest size was 16GB. It galls me that the smallest USB thumb drives in USB 3.1 Gen 1 nowadays are 8GB. I hear you about not needing that much capacity. i wanted one myself, untill i realized ive got no use for it That and have stupid ammount of storage in a very small formfactor.

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