In my odd few bits of family and friends tech support I've been recently installing Windows 8.1 from USB. However some are uefi and some old bios setups. I've just got a present from someone of a 16GB USB stick and now I'm thinking of three partitions:
1. 3.5GB GPT Partition
2. 3.5GB MBR Partition
3. (the rest GB) Partition
The first two contain Windows 8.1 in the two different USB install types and the third is a data partition containing drivers etc.
Would this work easily? Would a uefi boot straight from partition 1, an mbr partition not see partition 1 and use partition 2 etc? Been getting tired of USB rewrites etc! In fact I'd even like a little partition for a Linux diagnostic for detecting hardware faults if possible, tips on that?
1. 3.5GB GPT Partition
2. 3.5GB MBR Partition
3. (the rest GB) Partition
The first two contain Windows 8.1 in the two different USB install types and the third is a data partition containing drivers etc.
Would this work easily? Would a uefi boot straight from partition 1, an mbr partition not see partition 1 and use partition 2 etc? Been getting tired of USB rewrites etc! In fact I'd even like a little partition for a Linux diagnostic for detecting hardware faults if possible, tips on that?