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Flash drives are not made to be compatible with a specific operating system they work with all. What I recommend is that you do not format it once you get it. I have used my pny on windows 8, windows 7, Vista and so on from all the different operating systems and I have never had any problems putting recovery media on. However, if the recovery media is too large then you will get errors and it will stop the files. I hope this helps you.