I have a 1GB Sandisk Titanium Cruzer. I have removed the U3 partition and the U3 software using the available uninstaller, as well as formated the disk. I would like to divide the disk into 2 partitions, but am having trouble locating a method or software for this purpose. Ideally I would use one of the partitions as a bootable disk for bios updates and the other as simply a plug and run disk for PortableApps stuff and document storage.
The Windows XP Administrative tools>Computer Management>Disk Managment does not give the option to add/make a partition on the drive and Partition Magic 8.0 does not even show the drive (Probably since its for HDDs). Does anyone have any ideas/instructions for doing this? Ideally I would use one of the partitions as a bootable disk for bios updates and the other as simply a plug and run disk for applications and document storage.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Zack
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Find a Linux install CD you like, and use its partitioner.
I used the one included with Fedora Core 6's install CDs, but any will do. I think DSL's live CD has one, but I'm not 100% sure.
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Please keep in mind that Windows will not be able to show you (the contents) of two partitions on an USB stick. One of the two will be invisible to you. At least that was my experience.
Linux can do though...
Stupid Windows! Do you guys know if Vista will be able to do this? Hmm...someday I am going to have to learn to use Linux, anyone have any recommended sites?
Thanks,
Zack
Not much to learn really - most modern distributions of it are pretty self explanatory. Ubuntu seems to be the Linux Poster Child at the moment - I'm not really a big fan of it, but there is loads of support available for it, so I would recommend it for a beginner. You can download (or get by free mail order) a cd that you can boot from, so you can try it out without having to get rid of Windows, or mess anything up.
Search for Ubuntu. Shipit are the company that will post you a copy for free - useful if you have slow internet!
I use Suse which IMHO has more software but a smaller community than Ubuntu (or Kubuntu if you like the more Windows looking KDE (K Desktop Environment)).Slax is cool too because its very easily cusomised but its a live cd.
Sorry for this post! Win-Lin stuff isnt the theme here but I just like Linux so much. 8)
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Please keep in mind that Windows will not be able to show you (the contents) of two partitions on an USB stick. One of the two will be invisible to you.
I think that's only true if you have reached the limit.
I came across this at school when I wanted to mount both my HD and flash drive.
By default, PC computers can directly recognize only four IDE or ESDI devices. (Two devices can be added per disk controller, for a total of four devices.)
If you are using more than four IDE/ESDI devices, you need to remove the additional devices from your computer.
Of course, I haven't tried it.
I have a second partition, but it's ext3, so I don't expect Windows to recognize it.
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SwissKnife worked for me. It's free.
http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm