Windows 10: Boot from USB flash drive only with FAT32 and no multi-boot support?

I have a (new) Acer Swift notebook which does not allow to switch/enable Legacy BIOS mode.
So I can only disable "Secure Boot" and use UEFI.

However my bootable, GPT and NTFS formatted USB flash drive is NOT recognized or even bootable.
It works on other computers.

I read that FAT32 should be used.
Is this really a requirement? No NTFS possible?

Furthermore I read that the bootable USB flash drive MUST NOT contain two boot-variants for 64bit AND 32bit. Only stand-alone 64bit bootloader is allowed.

Is this true?

What about two-in-one bootable USB flash drives which allow booting Legacy-BIOS OR UEFI?
are these devices accepted?

Thank you
Peter

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it might just be that your bios doesn't support it, but it should anyway.

make sure you go into the bios and make sure "boot other device" is enabled and try seeing if the usb is listed as an hdd.. as bootable flash drives are usually picked up as usb hdd's and check if your bios detects the flash drive.

 

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mp3 player is in FAT / FAT32 format ?

Set Boot up first to the drive with hiren bootcd 10.4
Done...

the options will pop out after loading the disc choose

boot cd

then the list (step by step)

Next...
Dos....
USB Drivers....
Load USB Drivers with no386.....

Ask you load cd drivers. NO
Ask you load SCSI drivers. NO
Ask you anything NO.
USB driver list comes out. 8 Don't choose anything else.

type
C:\ (that should be your mp3 player if you did it right)

atiflash -i
to list the adapters

atiflash -p -f 0 ???.bin

done.........