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Can't see anything on USB after creating bootable WinPE
#1
Hi
I put an empty formatted 16Gb USB stick in the PC, ran Hasleo Backup Suit Free, selected Emergency Disk, followed the prompts, did not add drivers or tick download WINPE components, watched it create the image and create emergency disk (both progress bars did their thing) and hit close.
When I look on the USB stick it has renamed it to HASLEOBS but there is nothing to view on the stick in explorer, right click the drive, properties and it says there is 638Mb used.
New PC, i5 14400, 16Gb ram, 1Tb SSD, Win 11, Office 365, nothing else installed yet except Hasleo BSF, have made a backup and then went to make the USB recovery drive.

BY comparison an Acronis recovery USB stick has about 732Mb to 927Mb on it BUT when you look at it in Explorer you can see files and folders, e.g. bootmgr.efi, bootmgr, unattended.xml and a bunch of language folders etc.
 
What files should be on the USB stick?
How many Mb of files are expected to be on the USB stick?
Why can't I see any files/folders on the stick in Explorer (I put the stick in a win10 machine and can't see any files in Explorer there either.)
Are they hidden somehow?

thanks for any help in advance,
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#2
The files written to the USB drive are hidden, please refer to the link below to show the hidden files:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9168...-10-a.html

Hasleo Backup Suite simply extracts the WinPE.ISO it creates to the USB drive, so the storage space it takes up is the size of WinPE.ISO.
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(9 hours ago)admin Wrote: The files written to the USB drive are hidden, please refer to the link below to show the hidden files:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9168...-10-a.html

Hasleo Backup Suite simply extracts the WinPE.ISO it creates to the USB drive, so the storage space it takes up is the size of WinPE.ISO.

Ok thanks,
I had Show hidden files, folders and drives selected but I did not have Hide protected operating system files ticked.
Good I can see the files, just wanted to be sure they are there in case I have to rely on this to get my system back again.
So the base version of WinPE is about 512Mb so 638Mb makes sense
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