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Questions when making a USB drive

Development versions of Windows causes Make_E2B.cmd to quit/exit

Development versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 do not include working versions of wmic.exe. When you run any .cmd batch file which uses wmic.exe then it will quit the batch file and exit. Please use a release version of Windows when using any E2B .cmd scripts or Make_E2B.exe.

When the Make_E2B .cmd file runs it just immediately quits and no message is displayed.

The most common reason is that your Windows PATH variable is bad. At the Windows command prompt type (not if XP OS) where wmicwhere find These should return the path of the wmic.exe and find.exe files which are normally at C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\System32\wbem. Note that find.exe should NOT be a cygwin version but the windows\system32 …

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