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pbatard / uefi-ntfs

UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS or exFAT partitions from UEFI
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Example on Windows and/or Linux #9

Closed RomelSan closed 7 years ago

RomelSan commented 7 years ago

Hi, How can i make an USB flash drive with NTFS and FAT32 partitions with UEFI-NTFS img from a Windows Pc?

I am thinking: 1) Create a NTFS partition using diskpart and leave a little space at the end. 2) With other partition software ex: Easus Partition Home i create a Fat32 partition. 3) Using dd for windows i copy/burn the image to the USB fat32 partition. 4) Copy the windows ISO contents to the NTFS partition.

Will this work? Is there an easier method (manual)?

I know that Rufus is working fine, but i want to know how to do this manually, for the sake of knowledge. Thanks 👍

pbatard commented 7 years ago

It's in the README:

If you create a partition of the same size at the end of your drive and copy uefi-ntfs.img there (in DD mode of course), then you should have everything you need to make the first NTFS partition on that drive UEFI bootable.

So you just need to have a 256KB partition at the end of your drive (type generic data I think — can't recall the exact GPT denomination but your partitioning software should list the choices), dd that .img onto it, and you're good to go.

If you need more info about that img file, see https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/tree/master/res/uefi.