Forums
New posts
Search forums
News
Security News
Technology News
Giveaways
Giveaways, Promotions and Contests
Discounts & Deals
Reviews
Users Reviews
Video Reviews
Support
Windows Malware Removal Help & Support
Mac Malware Removal Help & Support
Mobile Malware Removal Help & Support
Blog
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
Reply to thread
Menu
Install the app
Install
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Forums
Hardware
Hardware Troubleshooting
Partitioning a 128GB USB Stick and be recognized by Windows
Message
<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 616601" data-attributes="member: 55987"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I need some help.</p><p></p><p>I just bought a 128GB USB stick. The purpose is to keep 3 copies of my system images (one image for MS SP3, one image for MS SP4 and one image for a future laptop) assuming each system image size is 30GB+ so a 128GB stick is sufficient for this purpose.</p><p></p><p>As my MS tablets uses only EFI/GPT it needs FAT32 for booting up. EFI doesn't recognize NTFS for boot up. I would like to make this USB stick bootable and have Macrium Reflect installed into it (primary FAT32 partition) as well.</p><p></p><p>I managed to split into 2 partitions using Minitools Partition Wizard : one formatted 4GB FAT32 for booting up and the other formatted using NTFS. However, there's no drive letter assigned to the second NTFS partition.</p><p></p><p>For USB removable stick Windows only recognizes the primary FAT32 partition with a drive letter and not detecting the second (or more) partition. This is a known issue.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">Is there any 3rd-party partitioning tool which can perform the latter function i.e. allowing me to assign a drive letter to the second partition and be recognized by Windows?</span></p><p></p><p>There are some other tools known as Filter Drivers which treat the USB Removable Stick as USB Fixed Drives but look troublesome to use. See below link</p><p></p><p><a href="http://agnipulse.com/2011/11/partition-usb-flash-drive/" target="_blank">How to Partition a USB Flash Drive - AgniPulse</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://agnipulse.com/2012/03/filter-drivers-removable-media-fixed-disk-windows/" target="_blank">Filter Drivers - Removable Media as Fixed Disk in Windows - AgniPulse</a></p><p></p><p>Another way I can do is to have a 4GB USB stick (or 8GB the smallest?) and make this bootable with Macrium Reflect installed. And have the 3 system images stored on the 128GB NTFS formatted USB stick</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 616601, member: 55987"] Hi I need some help. I just bought a 128GB USB stick. The purpose is to keep 3 copies of my system images (one image for MS SP3, one image for MS SP4 and one image for a future laptop) assuming each system image size is 30GB+ so a 128GB stick is sufficient for this purpose. As my MS tablets uses only EFI/GPT it needs FAT32 for booting up. EFI doesn't recognize NTFS for boot up. I would like to make this USB stick bootable and have Macrium Reflect installed into it (primary FAT32 partition) as well. I managed to split into 2 partitions using Minitools Partition Wizard : one formatted 4GB FAT32 for booting up and the other formatted using NTFS. However, there's no drive letter assigned to the second NTFS partition. For USB removable stick Windows only recognizes the primary FAT32 partition with a drive letter and not detecting the second (or more) partition. This is a known issue. [COLOR=#ff0000]Is there any 3rd-party partitioning tool which can perform the latter function i.e. allowing me to assign a drive letter to the second partition and be recognized by Windows?[/COLOR] There are some other tools known as Filter Drivers which treat the USB Removable Stick as USB Fixed Drives but look troublesome to use. See below link [URL='http://agnipulse.com/2011/11/partition-usb-flash-drive/']How to Partition a USB Flash Drive - AgniPulse[/URL] [URL='http://agnipulse.com/2012/03/filter-drivers-removable-media-fixed-disk-windows/']Filter Drivers - Removable Media as Fixed Disk in Windows - AgniPulse[/URL] Another way I can do is to have a 4GB USB stick (or 8GB the smallest?) and make this bootable with Macrium Reflect installed. And have the 3 system images stored on the 128GB NTFS formatted USB stick Thanks [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Top