Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net) is way better. I had too many problems with Linux isos not booting on UNetbootin and Universal USB Installer so I quit using them years ago. I have never used Rufus.LinuxSpring1 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:20 am A few clarifications please. Can a single USB/flash drive of say 16GB or higher be partitioned with one partition of NTFS for HireBootCD and the other vFAT/FAT32 for firmware updates? After booting into HirenBootCD it is then used to update the firmware kept in the second partition? And yes HP and Dell are some of the few manufacturers which do support Laptop firmware for about 5 years or so. But unfortunately only with Windows.
About Ventoy, I am not aware of it. It similar to Rufus or UNetbootin or Universal USB Installer?
When you install Ventoy on a USB drive it makes a small EFI partition and an exfat partition that normally takes up the whole rest of the drive. Then you just drag/drop bootable .iso images and other files there.
I quit putting other files in the main ventoy partition because I think I had a problem with older versions of Hiren's (Windows) not being able to access a folder containing the firmware updater on the main Ventoy exfat partition, but I forgot exactly what happened.
One of the Ventoy installation options is to leave free space at the end of the drive. Then you can use something like Gparted or Gnome Disks to make a FAT32 or NTFS partition that Windows can read and put your firmware updater there.