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![]() In general, multi-partitioned USB flash drives don't work well in Windows up to windows 7, that's why if you still wish to use the rest of the USB drive's space it must be present in the first partition, while the rest of the partitions cannot be accessed they are still accessible on boot when using GRUB2.īoth i386-pc and x86-64-efi targets are used so the USB drive will be detected in more systems(MBR and UEFI), but some systems will not detect it anyway(A BIOS update might be in order for a potential fix to that problem or it was that which caused it), using a USB V2,0 flash drive is also recommended for better compatibility(especially old systems). Windows 8 and later can be booted from anywhere, but they require their own partition, that's why you should calculate the partition size. Windows MBR boot process up to Windows 7 is only possible when the first block of the first partition has the boot files, since even if you do boot up from another partition the setup files won't be found(it looks for them in the first partition). The first partition serves as both an EFI partition and a filesystem we can use and store files to. Hiren's Boot CD - the new one with UEFI support and windows 10 PEĬan still use the rest of the space for general use even on Windows If anyone here had a problem with making a bootable USB with more than just one OS, especially with Windows, I've got a working example. ![]() UPDATE: I've updated the guide and moved it here
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