USB flash drive partition HELP

**shamus** · May 16th, 2006, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by po_jo_45

Norton Ghost didnt find the removable drive so that wont do..........................any other suggestions?

I'd buy a new one.
I'm a patient person but sooner or later I can't justify wasting time on something that's obviously FUBAR. Just not worth it.

**John_K** · May 16th, 2006, 01:21 PM

Did you try the drive on another computer?

**po_jo_45** · May 18th, 2006, 09:08 AM

i did but it wAs the same

**po_jo_45** · June 2nd, 2006, 01:41 PM

people pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help me.

What can i do to fix my usb?

**po_jo_45** · June 2nd, 2006, 01:42 PM

is it possible for me to post the program that i used and any tech wizards out there to try and change it or figure it out?

**3fingersalute** · June 2nd, 2006, 01:45 PM

Are you doing this on XP?

Have you tried Disk Management?

**John_K** · June 2nd, 2006, 01:57 PM

What program are you using Po Jo?

**street1** · June 2nd, 2006, 04:47 PM

The second Partition is not accessible from Windows XP. However Win98SE,Me, DOS and Linux may recognize it.

Do you have a way to try that?

**po_jo_45** · June 3rd, 2006, 04:37 PM

i have linux installed as a second os, but i am a total novice, if you could help by giving step by step instructions it would be really helpful. I can get hold of a win98SE also so if you can put that up aswell it would be ideal.

**po_jo_45** · June 3rd, 2006, 04:39 PM

The program i used originally is one that came with the usb. it does not have a name, i'll check that

**zoki3** · June 8th, 2006, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Ahcoraj

Here's a crazy idea, try booting to the xp cd and going in to setup with the drive plugged in and see if it allows you see and perhaps manipulate.the flash drive, in fact it just worked on mine to create one big partition, i tried to split it in 2 but xp gives a message about not supporting multiple partitions on a removable drive, maybe that's the issue......

A crazy idea but it works!! I had the same exact problem... my 2GB flash drive was split into 2 1GB partitions, and Windows would only recognize the flash drive as 1GB. Windows Disk Management showed that one of the partitions was inactive, but there was no way to activate it. So I booted from my XP disk and ran setup like I was installing windows... and when it gets to the part where you select the drive, I saw the flash drive there and was able to manipulate the partitions. I deleted all partitions and created 1 2GB partition, then I exited the setup and booted normally. All I had to do was format the drive, and voila...

Ahcoraj, thanks for your crazy idea, I was about to go crazy myself trying to figure this out!!!

**po_jo_45** · June 9th, 2006, 07:01 AM

WOW! So some1 has had success. Will try it again ASAP, just a bit busy now, will add a comment when i try it. THANKS PEOPLE

**po_jo_45** · June 20th, 2006, 12:30 PM

Nope, i booted from my XP disk and it found the USB but no other partition. DAMN! Can any1 tell me how to upload a file so that people can download it. I can upload the program that i used to do this thing.

**Ahcoraj** · June 20th, 2006, 08:16 PM

Well I'm glad to see it helped someone... Im beginning to think that your problem may be that your drive had 2 memory chips in it an one died po_jo. I'm not even sure if that's possible but hardware failure seems to be the best answer. PM me for an address to send the program to.....

also have you tried this http://www.compuapps.com/Download/sw...swissknife.htm if it doesnt see your 'missing' space, nothing will i fear......

**Tracker00** · July 21st, 2006, 12:21 AM

I had the exact same problem as you... Disk Management, Partition Magic, booting to the XP installer wouldn't work to partition my flash drive. I plugged it into my Mac, ran Disk Utility and it partitioned them into two FAT32 partitions.