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How do I partition a USB drive so that it's bootable and has a Windows-compatible data storage partition?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I have a 16gb flash drive, which I want a live ISO to boot from (via unetbootin or something similar). It'll be some 32bit distro that I can plug-in and boot on whatever computer I need to. Since it will be a live ISO, I'll need somewhere to save data. I want the USB drive to have about 1gb for the distro, and the other 15gb for data storage. I made two FAT partitions, the first called 'bootable' and the second 'storage'. The storage works fine in Linux, but Windows only sees the bootable partition. The storage isn't accessible. How can I make the data accessible on Windows, and still h (HowTos)

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