Recover Flash with programs and data too?
I've got a C, D, and E drive. I'd like to create a bootable recovery flash which contains the OS, program, and data from C&D (those two will fit on one flash :) Should I first create a recovery flash and then backup C&D on the same flash?


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Alan,
Please see post: 117542: [CUSTOMER ADVICE] Using USB sticks with more than 32GB will not be bootable which may affect your decisions here.
You may want to consider creating a 1GB FAT32 partition on any bootable flash drive to use for the Acronis recovery media and then have a second larger NTFS partition to hold your backup images.
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Thanks Steve, forgot about that one too!
Just curious, is Windows able to see any second parittion on your flash drives (if you have any partitioned). I've never gotten that to work the way I wanted, but havent' tried since moving to Windows 10 (so probably at least a year ago). I found parition limitation of flash drives as described here:
http://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/27018-possible-create-multipl…
There are 2 types of USB sticks. One is recognized as Removable, the other as Basic disk. So it depends on what firmware the stick has. Here's the screen shot of the 2's. Disk 6 & 7 are both 16GB Sandisk Cruzer. Disk 7 is regconized as Basic disk then you can use Disk Management to create a new partition and normally this type of disk is used to create "Windows to go".
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Hi Bob, you are correct as far as my regular USB flash memory sticks are concerned, they show up as Removable and therefore Windows Disk Management offers no options for partitioning!
If I attempt this with AOMEI Partition Assistant then I get the warning per the attached screen shot!
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