On 10/7/26 9:32 AM, CGS wrote:
I was reading this question again, it seems something got reversed in the wording. My USB drive experiment placed the iso at the beginning, and used the remaining space for the FAT32 partition, which turns out being a bit awkward in use. The iso acts normal, the FAT32 partition less so.What's confusing to me is when you write the ISO to the thumb drive it uses the entire space, though the drive might have a larger capacity than the ISO itself. So where is the latter written: At the beginning, the end, in the middle, or all over the place? Could you have a partition at the "end" of the drive and use some tool to write the ISO at the "beginning" so that the end partition is preserved? I've never heard of that being done; it's always the inverse case, like your own. ISO first, then data partition (I think the term they used to use was "persistence").
Did you mean to ask about swapping them? ISO at the end, FAT32 first? In that case I would expect the FAT32 partition to act normal, but I wouldn't know how to make the secondary ISO bootable.
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