Tuesday, March 21, 2017

boot - Can I make an already partitioned USB flash drive bootalble, without reformatting?

Can I make an already partitioned USB flash drive bootalble, without reformatting?




  • 1st partition: 262MB FAT32 which I do not want to touch if I don't have to

  • 2nd partition: 3.7GB which I plan to copy an Ubuntu liveCD onto




Will it be bootable then, or must the beginning of the drive contain special data (like MBR on hard drives)?

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