Partition USB Pen Drive

[JDobbsy1987]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to (if possible) partition a 32gb USB Pen Drive?

I would like to have 1 partition running Multiboot - YUMI ? Multiboot USB Creator | USB Pen Drive Linux
and the other as standard USB storage.

Lets say a 5gb multiboot partition and 27gb storage partition.

Is this possible?

Regards,
Jamie

 

[Golden]

Yes it is Jamie. Install and setup Yumi first, then partition afterwards.

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Yes it is Jamie. Install and setup Yumi first, then partition afterwards.

Cheers for the reply Golden.
I have put multiboot on the drive now... how best to partition it, i don't see the options under Disk Management?

Regards,
Jamie

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Any Ideas?

 

[Golden]

Jamie, use a 3rd party tool like Partition Wizard, then split the current partition as shown below. You can then resize etc.

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Hi Golden,
Sorry for the very late reply, i kept meaning to try this but never got time to do it sorry.

I am having an issue getting the 2nd partition to show in Windows Explorer.

The 1st Partition (F: ) has Multiboot on it and i can see this in Windows Explorer.
The 2nd Partition (G: ) is just free space for storage but doesn't show in Windows Explorer.





Cheers,
Jamie

 

[Slartybart]

What does Disk mgmt. show?
See: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Removable devices are classified differently by Windows based on the device. You might have to mount the partition, I'm not sure - PW sees it with drive letter G......

 

[JDobbsy1987]

I made a schoolboy error and didn't apply the changes, i have since applied the and now get a * rather than a letter (it still doesn't show in explorer)





Cheers,
Jamie

 

[Urthboundmisfit]

Self-delete, I was wrong. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/146694-partition-extended-logical-drives.html

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Cheers for the info... when i plug the usb drive into my laptop i don't get the 2nd partition from the usb drive either and that has 2 partitions so should support an extra 2 ?



Cheers,
Jamie

 

[whs]

The Windows Master Boot Record (MBR) partition structure supports a total of only 4 partitions per HDD / SSD, they can be either 4 Primary partitions or 3 Primary partitions and a single extended partition. By replacing one of the four primary partitions with an extended partition, you can then make an additional 24 logical partitions within the extended one.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/146694-partition-extended-logical-drives.html

This is irrelevant in the context.

@JDobbsy, Try to define a partition and format the space (e.g. in Fat32) and assign a drive letter. I would use Partition Wizard to do that. But it may not work with Partition Wizard or Disk Management.

 

[Slartybart]

whs seems to be on the right track. I'm interested in what Diskpart thinks about the partition.

If you've already formatted it, I can try it here (different devices, different results)

If you haven't formatted... would you do me a favor?

Open an elevated Command Prompt and type

Diskpart lis dis sel dis 1 lis par lis vol sel vol 4 det dis det par det vol exit exit

Make sure you SELect the correct DISk - I went by the Disk Mgmt. screen shot above.
The LISt PARtition shows you the partitions on the drive
The LISt VOLume shows you all volumes
If I counted correctly volume four (4) is the 19.29 GB
The following gives more.... detail about the objects.
DETail DISk
DETail PARtition
DETail VOLume

thanks.

What are the details about the flash drive - Make model....

Curious George.

Thanks,

Bill
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[JDobbsy1987]

I will test in the morning when back at work, thank you for the help/suggestions.

Cheers,
Jamie

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Not so clued up with all this so here are the screenshots as the drive is right now.

Hope this helps:
The pen drive is a 32GB USB 3.0 DataTraveler G4

 

[Golden]

Odd. I'll check mine in a bit on my W8 system.

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Odd. I'll check mine in a bit on my W8 system.

I may have done something in the wrong order or formatted it wrong at some point so maybe i have missed something very simple.

Cheers,
Jamie

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
Go for the EASY way

1) Get into command mode (admin mode / run as administrator) - we'll assume the device is "F" and ensure it's not open in File explorer.

2) type the following commands

DISKPART
LIST DISK You'll get a list of attached devices -- say the F device is Disk nr 5
SELECT DISK 5
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK (FAT32 if you like - depends on wht you want to do with the USB stick)
ACTIVE

EXIT

Now you can re-size the partition with say GPARTED and create a second (and 3rd if you want). Download GPARTED and create a bootable version - the download site explains the procedure clearly.

I can never understand why so many people don't use the command prompt more -- it can do all sorts of easy things for you.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Golden]

Lol, Jimbo do you ever bother reading threads starting at post #1?

 

[Slartybart]

Thanks JDobbsy,

Did you follow this post by whs, or did my long post bury that suggestion?

It's difficult to guess at the partitions from this side of the screen. You followed what I posted, but seeing the data now, I should have asked you to select partition 0 on the flash drive.

If you get the chance, try displaying the detail for that partition - there isn't any volume on the partition, so don't worry about the vol command

Using the information from your previous screen shot
The key information you're looking to grab is for the 19GB Logical (extended) partition.
in an elevated command type:

Diskpart lis dis sel dis 2 lis par sel par 0 lis par

the selected object (partition) has an asterisk on the left of the object name
i.e. * partition 0

det par exit exit

Thanks,

Bill

 

[whs]

Your Disk Management pictures look very similar to mine. On both sticks (a 16GB and a 128GB) I defined a storage partition after I installed Mint Mate on the stick. For the definition of those partitions I use Partition Wizard. They work perfectly well under Mint but there is no way to assign a drive letter for Windows.






If you want to know more about the process I use, read this tutorial. Chapter 2 describes the creation of the storage partitions.