Gonna try and turn an external USB hard drive into some crazy ass multiboot thing. It’s got just over 3.6 terabytes of usable space (Which at this point is honestly overkill; my personal backup stash is barely at a quarter terabyte and I can strip it to 60 if I omit all the Humble Bundle GOG stuff; I’ve collected all the Humble Trove games so that’s a lot of space) and I’ve made room so I can make it into a Windows To Go drive (There are ways to make unofficial WTG drives) on one partition and a Linux live system on the other. In total I’m planning to have four partitions on this thing:
A 512 MB EFI system partition (This is required for booting via UEFI firmware)
A 1.8 TB partition for Windows
A 1.8 TB partition for Linux
A leftover 14.9 gigs which is unallocated for now but will be used as swap on Linux
Also apparently to boot this thing from both BIOS and UEFI I need an MBR partition scheme, not GPT, and I chose GPT. Though I’ll probably never encounter an old school BIOS again anytime soon and apparently the MBR scheme doesn’t play well with storage devices larger than 2 TB so maybe it’s not an issue. And apparently MBR is limited to 4 partitions but I can work with that. I have a 1 TB drive hooked up to the PS4 but that’s not going anywhere unless it runs out of space which I’m not worried about yet. Maybe I’ll get a 2 TB later for this specific and likely unnecessary contingency. Apparently the model of external drive I’m using comes in several pretty cool looking colors but sadly they only have the black one where I live. Also because my computer doesn’t seem to cooperate with pirated Windows 10 I’m going to instead try and just mirror my computer onto the drive, but first I’m going to reinstall W10 again.
Or not. Computer won’t even recognize my recovery drive and computer just gives me an error saying it can’t find all the necessary files when I go to naked a new one. I suppose I could clone my current Windows installation but I want to start fresh. Also when I boot into a Linux live system it isn’t even recognizing that the disk has any partitions. This computer dates back to 2013 and it’s a potato at this point.
Never mind, the drive did work from a different USB port. But I don’t remember if I originally created this drive for Windows 8 or 10.
