I have installed Windows 10 in an 8Gb pen drive and have still 2 GB left out. Just wanted to know if there is a way I could use that space while keeping the pendrive bootable.

  • I_need_happiness@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Understand this:

    • A Drive has multiple partition.
    • A Partition has multiple volume.

    Now, if you have 128 GB drive. If you completely wipe the disk, your 128 GB is totally blank. Now, if you create a partition for 10 GB, you still have 110 GB Blank. But, Windows will list only the created partition.

    If you create 2 partitions in same (pen)Drive, when you plug it in, you would see actually 2 drives in This PC (They are actually partitions).

    Now, for example: If you have 128 GB pen drive and if you create windows 11 bootable drive, you would see either 16 GB or max 32 GB only. Rest 80+ GB wouldn’t even be available to see. But, you can create partition and can use it. Just that, make sure don’t create Primary Partition again. It should be simple Volume. If you have 2 Primary partition, You might actually confuse the system.

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    if there is a way I could use that space while keeping the pendrive bootable.

    So, the answer is YES.