How To: Partition a USB Flash Drive in Windows

How To: Partition a USB Flash Drive in Windows

How To: Partition a USB Flash Drive in Windows

       Applying Windows 10, you can partition an USB show drive into multiple partitioning. The process is not difficult, you simply follow some easy steps. This kind of tutorial will partition the drive so your device is assigned multiple drive words when linked to the computer.

This partition process is not done at the USB controller level; or said one other way, done at the hardware level. This USB partition process, for a lack of better terms, is done at the program level. What does this mean for you? It means the partitions can be easily wiped off the drive and the full capacity of the USB flash drive can be restored.

Once an USB stick is partitioned at the control mechanism level, or at the hardware level, there is absolutely no way reverse the partition. The multi-partition drive is everlasting. At the end of this tutorial is the solution for a hardware based partition solution.

Thus let's get started.

How you can partition an USB display drive in Windows twelve:

Connect the USB display drive to your Glass windows 10 machine. Be sure there may be nothing valuable on the USB as this process will remove all content from the drive.

Right Click the House windows icon and select Storage Management.

The Disk Managing window will appear with all the linked devices. Select your USB show drive by clicking one time. By selecting your flash drive, it will allow Windows to apply the partition to that device.

You will see your flash drive as Disk X. The device is represented by transversal gray lines. Right Mouse click your device in the diagonal gray line area on your screen and select Delete Volume.

Glass windows will display an mistake message stating all the contents of the device will be removed. Validate Yes.

You will will have an Unallocated partition for the flash drive. Therefore a file system is not assigned to the drive. Having no document system on your UNIVERSAL SERIES BUS means you cannot save data to the drive, Windows has no way of talking with the device. We have to create a file system for this partition, ie. FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT.

At the same time we give a file system to this partition, we will also slice up the USB flash drive to create multiple partitions.

Most suitable Click the unallocated space on your screen, this is represented by the diagonal gray lines. Choose New Simple Volume from the options presented.

A Microsoft wizard utility begins. Click Next from the first introductory screen and the following step Glass windows displays the total amount of memory accessible to the device. This is where you will enter the size of your first partition. In this example, I am by using a TWO GB flash drive (1, 896MBs) and can make a first partition of 500MBs.

The rest of the sorcerer utility is auto-populated and easy. For example, the wizard will ask if you need a specific drive page assigned to the rupture once the process is carried out.

The wizard utility will ask you what file-system you want this new partition. If you are not sure, just leave the auto-populated selection from Windows.

TIP: If you want the dual canton USB drive to also work in Mac pcs, make certain to format the drive as FAT, FAT32 or exFAT. Tend not to use NTFS, as Mac personal computers will only read the content, but you simply cannot write to the device.

Be sure to arranged a volume name to the unit so the zone (new drive letter) will be easy to acknowledge.

Click Finish for House windows to make this first partition. We are almost done, as the first partition was just made. Looking in Disk Administration once the wizard has closed you will see the device with one partition and your data file system and a balance of the drive as unallocated.

Rinse and Do it again. The actual same steps as above for this smaller unallocated storage.

Following the second pass using the partition wizard for Windows you will have a dual partition HARDWARE drive with two drive letters. Each Nand memory disk notice will work and look such as a normal, single show drive. You can data load each partition as normal. Heck you can even flash one rupture to make it bootable if you are into making bootable USB twigs.

Even though the above tutorial makes things easy to partition an UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS flash drive into multiple drive letters, this method is not permanent. Employing the same steps, you may clear out all the partitions and really content. For a few users, or companies, having an unsecured dual rupture drive is not suitable for their business practice or application. There is an alternative. There is a strategy to partition an USB at the hardware level.

To be able to rupture an USB drive at the hardware level, or controller level, you should have some specific controller chips, and the vendor commands to build the partitions. These tools are generally not readily available as there are hundreds of chip makers and hundreds of USB suppliers. Even so some US based companies have tools for business to business type applications.

Greg Morris, President - Nexcopy Inc. Our company provides solutions for creating partitions at the control hardware level. In addition, our technology is able to write protect these partitions, making them read-only, so nothing at all can be modified or changed.