codyd51 wrote:
That looks much better.
codyd51 wrote:
Does that mean that the Live USB has two partitions? The first partition would be the UEFI goodies containing the essential boot drivers in a ramdisk, and the second would contain resource files and other programs?
That's one way to do it. Linux distros usually work this way.
Windows uses
disk images instead of partitions. The USB drive has a single FAT32 partition that contains boot files, a disk image that gets mounted for the installer, and a disk image that gets copied to the hard drive.
In my experience writing legacy BIOS bootloaders, firmware is tested only with versions of Windows that existed when the firmware was released, and may blow up if you do something different from those versions of Windows. Yes, this even affects newer versions of Windows on older PCs.