Acronis Recovery flash - using space on the flash disc

Hi, this is my first post here. I have a general question that probably applies across all versions:
Acronis recovery USB flash only requires about 500mB of space on a bootable flash drive. These days most flash drives are several Gb in size upwards. Does the community know if a flash drive can contain a second formatted partition to use the remaining space disc space, e.g to hold a .tib(x) recovery file on the same drive?
I tried formatting the remaining space but as the Acronis recovery flash was formatted as bootable, Windows did not see the second partition. Is there a workaround solution? Thanks

Hi, this is my first post here. I have a general question that probably applies across all versions:
Acronis recovery USB flash only requires about 500mB of space on a bootable flash drive. These days most flash drives are several Gb in size upwards. Does the community know if a flash drive can contain a second formatted partition to use the remaining space disc space, e.g to hold a .tib(x) recovery file on the same drive?
I tried formatting the remaining space but as the Acronis recovery flash was formatted as bootable, Windows did not see the second partition. Is there a workaround solution? Thanks
I have done exactly what you have requested on two of my flash drives. This is an example of my 128GB drive separated in to two drives, one is for 1GB, the other is the remainder of the 128GB. If I remember correctly, I just let Acronis format the drive as a Recovery Flash Drive and then I used Minitool Partition Wizard 12.6 Free to shrink the partition to 1GB and add another partition to the flash drive. I keep a couple of system backups on the extra space.
EDIT: Oh, and as Steve says, I did have to make the extra 100+ GB partition an NT partition.
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