
It’s best to leave the ‘Quick Format’ option un-checked.
Make sure that FAT32 or NTFS is selected as the file system. Open ‘My Computer’, right click on your USB drive and select properties. Make sure your USB stick is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. In this tutorial I'll show you the simple steps required to create a USB stick that boots into the Macrium Reflect Windows PE Rescue Environment. The partition boot sector is created when the file system is formatted. The BCD is used to boot Windows PE and all flavours of Windows with the Vista kernel and later. Windows Vista/7 creates different partition boot sector code that's compatible with the Boot Configuration Data ( BCD).
The partition must be formatted using Windows Vista/7.