How Do I Create a Boot Partition on a USB Drive?

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Tip 1 - 77 - Create a multiple partition, multi-boot USB Flash drive under Windows - RMPrepUSB

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ildi Sztanko | permalink

Multiple partitions on a USB Flash drive

For further reading: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/multipartufd ^[1]

Tip 2 - How do I partition a USB drive so that it's bootable and has a Windows-compatible data storage partition?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by BRYAN PACHOLSKI | permalink

split from here I have a 16gb flash drive, which I want a live ISO to boot from (via unetbootin or something similar). It'll be some 32bit distro that I can plug-in and boot on whatever computer ...

For further reading: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30322/how-do-i-partition-a-usb-drive-so-that-its-bootable-and-has-a-windows-compatibl ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Make a USB Bootable

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Andre Bakken | permalink

Have an old USB drive lying around that you don't use anymore? Turn it into an operating install disk for Windows, Linux or Mac, or a diagnostic tool for your PC. Follow this guide to learn how. Open the Command Prompt. You will need to...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-USB-Bootable ^[3]

Tip 4 - Live USB on a 2-partition usb-drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Doratiotto Johnny | permalink

I was wondering if I could have 2 partitions on a USB-drive that would allow me to boot on my key as a regular USB-installation-disk (partition1), and another partition for regular storage under

For further reading: http://askubuntu.com/questions/423300/live-usb-on-a-2-partition-usb-drive ^[4]

Tip 5 - Adding a boot partition to my external hard drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by PPC Lutin Noir | permalink

I'm working in Windows 7 and trying to create a bootable Windows 7 partition. I'm working with a computer with no optical drive and the only USB device I have is a 2TB external HDD with a bunch of ...

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/688955/adding-a-boot-partition-to-my-external-hard-drive ^[5]