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How to Create a MULTI-PARTITIONED Windows 7/8/8.1 Bootable USB Flash Drive

2015-04-01
welcome back to take a city lesson gentlemen this is boring I'm going back to you guys today with a tutorial on how to make a bootable USB pendrive not just that as well it's going to be a tutorial on how to make a multi petition bootable USB pendrive in Windows 8.1 now if you guys don't know in Windows 8.1 Windows 8 and Windows 7 there's actually a limitation in the OS where you can't make more than one recognizable partition on a removable media device that is something such as a USB pendrive though there is a sort of a trick to get around this and that's what I'm going to show you today because I'm sure there's people out there who have like an 8 gigabyte USB pendrive 16 gig or even 32 gigabyte pendrive and they want to just make a little segment for that boot petition and then they want to use the rest of their USB pendrive as a normal USB pendrive where they can put data and what not freely on it however if you just have a 4 gigabyte USB pendrive and you just want the petition session then I'll put a link in the description below where you can skip ahead on how to just make a USB bootable pendrive but if you guys are interested in making a multi petition USB pendrive then let's continue on so we're on our desktop here and now there are three programs you will want to get straightaway two programs sorry that the first one being you me and now there are other programs you can use but I prefer you me it's just so easy so like a few clicks and you might be able to make that bootable USB pendrive so you go click here download download it wherever you want to download it to and then you need another program called boot ice and now the 32-bit version is going to be absolutely fine so we've got boot ice one point three point two point one I'll put the download link in the description below for you guys so once you've got those programs we can now go on the desktop and get these things ready so we've got here in English windows a 64-bit version a bootable ISO and this is the ISO I currently use to install Windows because I've only got Windows 8 keys and so I have to update to Windows 8.1 obviously if you're going to have whatever I say you're going to have so get that ISO on the desktop and get it ready and then get you me and then get this program called boot ice as well and so with this blue dice program we can now start to do the first steps in making a multi petition USB pendrive so we're going to go down to Windows here and we can type in disk parts and this will bring up this petition it's a program that essentially can it's actually a pretty powerful program but it's what's going to do is going to completely wipe our USB pendrive because we're going to start from fresh here so there's no confusions there's no frustrations if you follow this tutorial you'll have exactly what I'm trying to do a tutorial for and that's a bootable multi partition bootable USB pendrive anyway in here we can this part we can go to lists disk so this is the first thing we type in type in list is press enter it'll bring up all the disks currently connected to our computer and we can see here disc 3 we want to make pay particular attention to disc 3 in my on my behalf or in my part and that is the that is my USB pendrive so you have to make sure that you're selecting the right disk so what we do is select disk 3 and so in this case disc three will now be selected and just for clarification we can now go list disk again type it in again and it should have a star next to the disk that's selected so you want to make sure that you are selecting the right disk if you select the wrong disk and you do what I'm doing you can potentially break your whole computer so this is crucial that you select the right disk so now we've got the USB pendrive selected we can now type in clean and this will just essentially just wipe the drive completely like it's basically the most thinner is just wiping the whole drive clean and so now we've wiped this drive clean we can now type create partition primary so we want to just format it and the basic I think it's a fat 16 of formatted to base of the get-go so anyway we go create partition primary bang this part succeeded in creating it the unspecified position so now our boot drive is basically cleaned out it's ready to go and we can now close this program down and so we should be able to I mean if you want to you can quickly go to this PC on my computer and you can see it there should be recognizable but after this we want to open up the program now boot ice and so after we've opened up this program this is actually a pretty good program really good it's the only program that I know it can do this so we go open up this program go down to parts manager this button here so we make sure our dis is selected of course this is our actual disks a USB flash drive here and we go down to parts manage and now once we've clicked on that we can go to re partitioning here so don't worry about formatting because repositioning can format it as well it's going to reformat it essentially as well so we go to re partitioning and so after we clicked on repositioning we can now go down to USB HDD mode here down the bottom multi partitions and we can select that so it's originally selected on single petition but we want to change it to USB HDD mode multi partitions and we're going to click OK and now what this is going to do is it's going to allow us the ability to make three petitions up to three petitions with one extended I believe so we want to click on 0 0 straightaway and that will give us more free space so on 3 & 2 we can click 0 0 for now and now we want to this will be fat32 write that 32 will be our initial boot drive here and we want to make this say three thousand seven hundred and fifty megabytes you can make it whatever you want you make it 4 thousand megabytes if you want to you can make it six thousand megabytes you can make it so just my file my ISO file things like three point three five gigabytes and whatnot so I'm just going to make it three thousand seven hundred fifty megabytes and then I'm going to make the other petition three thousand six hundred and thirty six megabytes so I know when I insert it if it comes up anything over three point six gig will be the boot drive and anything under that will be the actual data drive and now we can put pretty much just a format them in fat32 that's not too much of a difference on a pendrive we also want to click here optimize internal structure now this is also another good thing that we can click here and so we could leave these other sector and you leave that option alone and just click OK and essentially what this will do and click OK again as I said what this will do now is it will format our Drive pendrive into two different partitions both being fat32 and now the important thing here this is the this is sort of like the trick that we're going to do with this program when we want to use the data section of the drive we can see it here now it's come up as G Drive when we want to use the data section of the G Drive we have to click set accessible and so you're going to want to keep basically in a nutshell you're going to want to keep boot ice this program you want to store it away in your file somewhere and keep it on hand because whenever you want to use it as a data drive you can hit here set accessible to that 3.6 gig petition this is why I didn't set the capacity at the same I know 3.7 gig is my boot petition 3.6 is my actual data petition and so if we want to use it as a data petition to put files on we can then click set accessible if we want to use it as a boot drive we can then click set accessible reboot the computer and then boot or whatever go to the computer that you're going to install windows on and use it like a normal USB pendrive sorry normal USB bootable Drive then after we're done we can go back and just change it to this program to our so we just have to whatever we're using it for we have to switch it before we do it and then after we're finished we can then switch it back to whatever we want to do it for that makes any sense so if you want to use it as a boot drive okay this is where the boot partition is we can hit set accessible now we can use it as a boot drive and if we want to use it as a data storage device we can now go okay three point six gigs okay there's no Drive later coming up set accessible and we can now use it as a data drive so once we've done that so now that we're going to continue the second part of the tutorial we are going to set accessible to 3.7 gig partition and make that active so you can read it so this is the next part of the tutorial this is how to make a bootable USB pendrive so we want to double click on you me here go to yes open it up I agree and then select here the 3 gigabyte partition and then what we want to do is go to select a distribution to put on G Drive and we want to go all the way down to bot all the way down the bottom here and go to Windows 8 7 8 8 installer here now what we want to do after this is we will want to go to browse and we will want to select our ISO here and here it is here open and now after that after you selected your ISO you can then go create and click yes and so this will take quite a while usually takes around I think 40 years it's going to take around 40 minutes so after it's finished we now have a USB pendrive and it's ready to boot so let's get on to the next step and that's to insert your pet USB pendrive into the fresh computer and then press the power button and then repeatedly press f8 until you get that boot menu up and once you get that boot menu up you can then select the USB pendrive from the drop-down options so as we can see here it's appeared here that would be my io data USB pendrive and then you'll see the u me come up here the u me multi boot USB UI you can then select your instable ISO there from the windows 7 8 option and then you can click install Windows 8 as we can see here it's recommend it's recognized it and we're good to go ok guys so that is the end of the tutorial and once we've booted back into Windows and you've set up Windows the way you want it and you want to start using your pendrive as a normal drive like I said or you can then do what you want to do you can actually rename this and call this the boot drive and it will store that name and then you can go to open up boot ice here and now we can quickly go to parts managed and then we can now click down to the one that's not boot drive and click accessible set accessible and you can see here it automatically changed as well in this in my computer this PC so that's the usable portion and the icon changed as well so this is removable storage now and we can now use it as such so that is the end of the tutorial guys I hope you enjoyed this tutorial if you have any questions or comments about this video then please leave a comment in the comment section 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