Multiple OS' and storage partition on USB Flash Drive

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I have a 32 GB SanDisk flash drive. I want to be able to boot into Tails and Kali Linux (ideally both 32- and 64-bit Kali) from it, as well as having a large partition to act as a regular flash drive.

I formatted the drive into two FAT32 partitions - `persistence` and `multiboot` (`persistence` first so that I can use the drive as a regular flash drive on Windows, which I understand only reads the first partition), but using YUMI installs the OS' onto the first partition and renames that to `multiboot`.

I tried it with just one partition at first too, but shrinking the `multiboot` partition after running YUMI and creating a new FAT32 `persistence` partition through GParted caused `multiboot` to no longer work.

Is what I'm after even doable? Ideally, I would have about 2GB allocated to Tails, 4-8GB for Kali(s) and the remaining bulk of the drive as regular storage, accessible on both Windows and GNU/Linux systems.
 
Solution
Hi,
I don't think it's possible to do like this. Generally, if we created more than one partition on USB flash drives, the second partition may not be shown on our system.