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    Partition USB Thumb Drive?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. HTWingNut

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    Is it possible to partition a USB thumb drive?

    Partition Magic 8 doesn't recognize it, and Acronis just hangs or assigns it as drives C: and D: and then it never shows up on my PC. Kinda strange.

    What my ultimate goal is to take my Corsair 16GB thumb drive and partition one section for BartPE and the other to store HDD images. Using BartPE with pe2usb it formats it in FAT and will only format up to 2GB.
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 18, 2008
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  2. Andy

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    Partition using Disk Management, or GParted.

    Even if partitioned in FAT, you can convert the file-system to NTFS.
     
    Andy, Sep 18, 2008
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