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Flash Drive Partitioning

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by patrick013, 2010/04/13.

  1. 2010/04/13
    patrick013

    patrick013 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello,

    When partitioning the flash drive it will not apppear in Windows Explorer
    as having several partitions, therefore, the other partitions cannot be used.
    Cannot get into them to transfer files, etc..

    Is there a reason for this or is this a hardware specific limitation.


    Thanks,

    p013
     
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    Windows can only see partitions in a fixed drive, but their are ways around it.
    See the following ..
    Partition USB Flash Drives.
     
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    patrick013

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    Hello,
    From reading your suggestions I do not think anyone is doing this. The old utility is too old.
    A new utility is not here yet. This flash drive is 16GB, formatted into NTFS, and needs to be seen by XP as a fixed USB drive, not removable, then I think it would work. The old utility was for smaller, FAT USB sticks much smaller. Case is still unresolved then.
    tHX.
    p013
     
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    PeteC

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    I fail to see why you would want to partition a flash drive - what is wrong with master folders.

    One of the bases of hard drive partitioning is that if the OS is installed on one partition and data on another the OS partition can be formatted without data loss.

    In your case if the flash drive fails then regardless of the no. of partitions you may have it is likely that all data will be lost.
     
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    patrick013

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    So metimes I wonder myself. How about one for NTFS and one for FAT as the copy machine scanners are only working FAT. How about one for backup and one for misc. downloads and work at school, etc.. Any number of reasons...

    THX
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