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I tried this on 3 USB flash drives and it worked only on my 8 GB Lexar drive. So it might not work on all USB drives, but it sure does work on some.
Someone might ask: "Why would you want to partition USB flash drives?". At work I use my personal USB flash drive and I only need it for printing sometimes from it. So I need a separate smaller FAT32 partition for work and a larger NTFS partition for keeping my files.
In order to do this, you need to download 2 programs:
- BOOTICE:
- Lexar USB Format Tool:
Don't worry, the Lexar tool should work on other USB drives, not just on Lexar made. In the Lexar topic listed above, the user used it successfully on a Fujitsu USB flash drive.
As I said above, it doesn't work on all drives. I had a no-name drive and a Verbatim older one.
Here's what you need to do:
1. Start Bootice and in the main screen select your USB drive under Destination Disk, then click on the Parts Manage button to open the Partition Management screen.
Only 1 line should be listed, containing the details of your USB drive.
2. Click on the Re-Partitioning button.
3. Select USB-HDD mode (Multi-Partitions).
4. Choose the size and add labels for each of the 4 (or less) possible partitions.
If you decide to have 2 or 3 instead of 4, make sure the 4th one is one of them - I read somewhere that this is important so I haven't done otherwise. So for 2 partitions, you should set size/label for 1: and set it to zero for 2: and 3: and add label for 4 (you can't manually change the size for number 4, it's calculated automatically).
5. Then click the OK button and the USB disk drive should be partitioned in a few seconds, after which you will receive a successful message.
On the first 2 USB flash drives I tried I received an "access is denied" error message upon clicking that OK button, and the USB drives became unreadable. If you receive that error, your flash drive is not OK for partitioning, so you have to try a new one.
You can fix that error and make your flash drive working again with this tutorial:
6. Close all windows until you are back at the Partition Management screen where you should see that your USB drive has now multiple partitions (2, 3 or 4, depending on your previous selection).
If you select each one, you will notice that one has an Set Accessible button active, and for the other one the button is greyed out. This means that only the partition with the button greyed out is currently visible in Windows. If you click on the Set Accessible button where it's active, that partition will be accessible in My Computer, and the other won't. This won't change any data on your partitions if there is any (they should be empty after partitioning because that includes formatting).
7. Normally only 1 partition can be visible, but we can make all of them visible at once by "Flipping the bit". To do that, we will use the Lexar USB Format Tool. If Bootice worked fine and you have partitions, just open the Lexar tool and click on the Flip Removable Bit button for your partitions and you should receive a message to reinsert the flash drive in order for the bit to be flipped. Just click OK, close the program, remove the USB drive then plug it back on.
All partitions should be visible now.
If, for security reasons, you want to go back and see only the partition you set accessible, just open the Lexar tool and click on the same button again (even if it still says Flip Removable Bit, it will un...flip it this time.
For work I will keep only 1 partition accessible and put a password protected archive with bootice on it, so if I ever want to make my personal partition active, I can do it anywhere.
Or I can just make the bootice folder hidden as an operating system file, with the following command in cmd (open on the partition, in my case in G:\): attrib bootice +s +h
Now no one knows the folder is there and I can access it by writing the folder's name in the address bar, like G:\bootice.
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