03-09-2024, 02:25 AM
As an addendum to the above missive...
When HBS creates your Emergency Disk on an UEFI System, it will generate the needed FAT32 UEFI BOOTable partition up to the fuill size of your UFD, if <= 32gB. If the UFD is larger than 32gB, the extra space is left unallocated for your own use.
When using a 32gB UFD for the HBS Emergency Disk, it creates a full 32gB FAT32 UEFI BOOTable partiton, but really only needs about 375mB of real storage for a usable environment. Based on that, and using a decent partition tool which can resize partitions, I shrunk that 32gB FAT32 partition down to 1gB and the Emergency Disk continues to BOOT just fine. This allowed me to take that 31gB unallocated space I just created and make an NTFS partition for my own use (a place to possibly store images
).
Hope this helps...
When HBS creates your Emergency Disk on an UEFI System, it will generate the needed FAT32 UEFI BOOTable partition up to the fuill size of your UFD, if <= 32gB. If the UFD is larger than 32gB, the extra space is left unallocated for your own use.
When using a 32gB UFD for the HBS Emergency Disk, it creates a full 32gB FAT32 UEFI BOOTable partiton, but really only needs about 375mB of real storage for a usable environment. Based on that, and using a decent partition tool which can resize partitions, I shrunk that 32gB FAT32 partition down to 1gB and the Emergency Disk continues to BOOT just fine. This allowed me to take that 31gB unallocated space I just created and make an NTFS partition for my own use (a place to possibly store images
).Hope this helps...