How to create a partition for an USB Pen Drive !
Actually there is no such way by which we can initially make any partition in our USB drives. As we know they are the removable drives, which are actually temporary drives. To do this we need to trick up the Operating System by making the PC recognize it as a permanent drive. In this article I will be demonstrating just the same with the help of which we will be able to make a partition or two for our USBs. Only the first partition will be visible, and the other partitions will not show up on any other PC, but your own.
Actually there is no such way by which we can initially make any partition in our USB drives. As we know they are the removable drives, which are actually temporary drives. To do this we need to trick up the Operating System by making the PC recognize it as a permanent drive. In this article I will be demonstrating just the same with the help of which we will be able to make a partition or two for our USBs. Only the first partition will be visible, and the other partitions will not show up on any other PC, but your own.
Step 1: Plug in your pen drive into your PC’s USB port. Then
right-click on ‘My Computer’ and click on ‘Manage’ in the context menu. Click
on ‘Device Manager’ present on the left pane. This will show all the hardware
devices connected to your PC right at that time. Now, on the right pane, scroll
down to ‘Disk Drives’ and you should see your pen drive connected here.
Right-click on the pen drive and select ‘Properties’.
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| Selecting properties for the flash drive |
Step 2: In the properties window that you have just opened, click on the ‘Details’ tab. From
the scroll down menu under ‘Property’, choose ‘Device Instance Path’. You
should see a string of characters highlighted in the ‘Value’ window below,
which should read something like ‘USBSTORDISK&VEN_&PROD…..’ Right-click
on this value and select ‘Copy’. Now close all the windows without saving
changes.
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| Selecting the Device Instance Path |
Step 3: Now open the folder that you uncompressed after
downloading the universal USB flash drive driver. In this folder, find and open
the file named ‘cfadisk.inf’ in ‘Notepad’ or any test editor you prefer
(Notepad++ is ideal to be used here’ (download from ‘notepad-plus-plus.org’).
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By Amrut Deshmukh
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