When using Universal USB Installer i.e. PenDriveLinux, to create bootable Linux USB drive with large NTFS persistence drive, e.g 29GB, the process took a very time (hours) without completing and the dialog stated there will be no progress update until persistence creation is done. When using Task Manager to check, the process still consumes relatively high CPU usage.
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Try to make sure Windows hard drive has large free space to create persistence drive file on USB. Once that is done, the creation should take about 5 minutes.