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I don't believe you can use a USB Flash Drive with the Windows System Image Backup tool. An NTFS formatted USB external hard drive of 60GB or more should work. Any USB 2.0 / 3.0 external hard drive of about 500GB to 1TB would work for your purpose. Yes, I know this is more than you want, but it is what will work.
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