partition USB drive?

I have a USB memory stick 1G and i want to partition it into 5 drives of 200mb.
I have winxp home.

I believe I you can't partition the flash media with the normal disk management utilities ...

... HOWEVER ... if you modify the registry so the USB flash drive "looks" like a fixed drive, then you can create the partitions you want. I found this detailed description of exactly what you need to do: http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Multiple-Partition-USB-Stick-with-Mult-t69211.html

i tried it with hitachi microdrive because the required driver on the link didnt exist
http://www.xpefiles.com/

I got cfadisk followed instructions and it failed to update driver after i changed the cfadisk.inf.

THis is really complicated and i dont want to create a bootup partitiion

 

anyone?

 

i dont think u can

i tryed it as well

 

Why not just create separate folders on the flash drive? 1GB is a rather small storage device to partition.

 

My thoughts, too. :-D Bazza

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hi,

just tried partitioning a 2gb usb drive, it won't let me,

looks like the folder way is the one to choose

 

this article says you can so who is right?
http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Multiple...lt-t69211.html

 

It's not so much "if you can" but "why would you want to"?

There's absolutely NO advantage to partitioning a Flash Drive.
Set up folders to contain your different data files and they will always be easily available to you by just opening the drive in Windows Explorer.

Windows sees a Flash drive as a specific drive letter of its own naming.
You cannot have multiple drive letters assigned to one USB Flash Drive.

Even if you could fool windows into doing it, that could result in a drive maintenance nightmare and maybe even data loss.

As an experienced computer tech, I wouldn't even consider it.

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
The Shadow :cool

 

yes but my friend wants it and I said it could be done.
Can it be done?

 

I have seen a few articles and such on partitioning a USB. I would love to have be able to do this as I figure if I create a USB say with 2 or even 3 partitions I could have one for an emergency boot disk (xp pro), one as a recovery disk and the last one to carry various utilities I use to work on computers.
A all in 1 pendrive if you will.

 

parted, gparted? Sounds like a job for GNU/Linux, possibly a Linux live CD. Have hosed enough pen/flash/USB memory sticks, drives here. The boot disk will work, if the systems BIOS can make it so. Usually carry CD-RW for that kind of thing, most systems will boot from an optical drive. Standard CD holds at least 700 MB, before compression, knoppix gets up to 2GB of software on a 700 MB CD with on-the-fly decompression. Have 1-4GB and 1-8GB flash drive on this rig, one used for Windows 7 ready boost, and the other for a Linux partition, and will keep them for that. Used to boot this PC from a flash drive, until I canned a HDD for it. Happy hunting:major
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i bought a 512mb pen drive with an integrated floppy partition,
i also have a transcend jetflash 210 (1gb), it uses fingerprint technology to access a 'private' partition and also has a 'public' partition, it comes with a software disk to change the size of the 2 partitions - but you cannot create any more, it is 'seen' in windows as 2 sepparate drive letters,
there are also the stealth mxp flash drives that work the same,

maybe something along these lines will help