With larger USB Flash Drives now available at more affordable prices, I wanted to be able to use some of them as both a recovery boot device along with storage. For a long time, I would use a small USB drive for the recovery disk and the larger ones for storing my backups. I have two backup programs I use because I got burned once by Acronis changing their formats. And, I have 5 computers at home (but only two that I use regularly). But, that means a lot of backups. Although I store my backups on hard drives internally, I also keep backups on external drives and my most recent backups on USB Flash drives velcroed to my computers.
These are the steps I took to create recovery partitions for both Acronis True Image 2020 and Macrium Reflect 8 on one 128Gig USB Flash Drive while utilizing the rest of the drive for storage of my backups. I tried a few different things until I found a solution. These tips may not necessarily work with other recovery software or methods. But, it may help you find a solution if you are ever looking for one.
1) With a blank, or new, or unallocated MBR USB Drive, create a Recovery Disk using Macrium Reflect (I used the Windows RE 10 format). The successful completion should show up as MACRIUM_PE FAT32 1024MB with no drive letter.
2) Open MiniTool Partition Wizard 12 Free and move the newly created partition 1 Gig to the right. (Leaving 1024MB as the first unallocated partition.)
3) Using MTPW, create a new FAT32 format for your new 1024 MB partition which WILL have a drive letter.
3) Now create a Recovery Disk using Acronis True Image. I used the Linux Based Recovery format. Choose Creation Method> Advanced> Linux-Based Media and select your USB Drive letter ie. (H:).
4) After the Acronis Recovery disk is created, change the drive letter of the partition to “None”.
5) Open MTPW and create a partition for your storage partition using the NTFS file system. (Disregard the warnings that Windows can not see the new partitions since it works fine.)
6) To test, restart and select the boot option of your motherboard. You should see both USB bootable partitions to select from.
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