Split USB ?

[Rubenaasheim]

Hey! i was wondering if i was able to kinda like split my USB so i have 2 partition on my USB so i can have my regular files on 1 partition and the iso file on the other one? and if im able to do that how will i get the BIOS to start with the iso installation?

 

[boosted1g]

First of all you are talking about splitting your hard drive or flash drive, USB is just the connector.

Typically you would use a tool like Easus partition master and shrink the partition the iso is on, then create new partition for the data.

Now if you told me if this was a hard drive or a flash drive and what the iso is of (like is it a live cd of Linux, is it windows installation, is it your windows os on a hard drive, etc) then I can give you more specific information for your scenario.

 

[Rubenaasheim]

First of all you are talking about splitting your hard drive or flash drive, USB is just the connector.

Typically you would use a tool like Easus partition master and shrink the partition the iso is on, then create new partition for the data.

Now if you told me if this was a hard drive or a flash drive and what the iso is of (like is it a live cd of Linux, is it windows installation, is it your windows os on a hard drive, etc) then I can give you more specific information for your scenario.

its a flash drive and windows 7 installation sorry i thought i wrote that

 

[boosted1g]

I have never experimented with altering the partition size of the iso image. Cant say for sure if it would work or not.

Do you not have a second flash drive?

Here I 4 options before having to resort to this
1) another usb flash drive/external
2) transfer file to another pc via network or remove hard drive and "mount" it to another pc and then transfer files.
3) shrink partition of hard drive you are going to install windows on, and put your data on that partition.

 

[mcnumpty23]

you can have a windows installation and all the other files on the flash drive at the same time--i always do it i just make an extra folder called software and put the stuff in there

dont think you could partition a flash drive unless you can bit flip it so windows sees it as a fixed drive not a removable one

 

[Rubenaasheim]

you can have a windows installation and all the other files on the flash drive at the same time--i always do it i just make an extra folder called software and put the stuff in there

dont think you could partition a flash drive unless you can bit flip it so windows sees it as a fixed drive not a removable one

Thank u !

 

[mcnumpty23]

no problem--and if you use yumi you can actually put a load of isos on it at one time and pick which one you want to load

 

[mcnumpty23]

ie you could have windows 7 installer and windows 8 installer and linux installer and pre boot fault fixing iso and a software folder--really handy tool is yumi

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/