Partition a usb drive

[Beerbaron]

Whats the easiest way to partition a usb drive?

I know you cant do it in windows as it sees the drive as removable media. Ive tried the Lexar tool but that doesnt seem to work.

Any ideas?

 

[wakayoda]

what is the point of this why not make 2 folders

 

[Beerbaron]

i have been given a 2gb pen and only need to use 1gb. this is for something im doing at uni so my data can only be stored in a 1gb space.

 

[JonJ678]

gparted live cd

Windows may or may not be willing to acknowledge the second partition, I'm a little hazy on this.

 

[Souljacker]

I got a usb bay for my old laptop hard drive, which was partioned in 2. I managed to remove the partitions in Windows, and both were recognized as separate drives. I see no reason as to why it wouldn't work.

 

[MikeHunt79]

I ended up using Disk Utility under OSX, as Windows would refuse to do it!

I split a 512mb stick into 2 x 256mb partitions...

 

[J.B]

I've got a USB drive with 2 partitions on it and Windows sees it as 2 drives.

 

[Beerbaron]

ive tried 2 different pens and windows 7 disk management doesnt allow you to create partitions on it. i havent tried gparted yet.

 

[Berserker]

Windows disk management won't let you do this. Not sure about diskpart, but probably not.

gparted most certainly will do it.

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

Last time I checked, win XP will only recognise 1 partition on a removable USB drive, shouldn't be a problem if you only need to use 1 partition. There is a windows XP driver on the net that allows you to see the extra partitions though.

I second GParted/QTParted, should partition it fine.

 

[droyden]

Linux bootcd will do it fine, www.knoppix.org for example.
Pretty sure Jimbob is correct about windows only seeing one (1st?) partition.

 

[Beerbaron]

I managed to sort it out. The Lexar tool only works if the usb pen is formated in fat32. I managed to created a new partition using gparted