flameboy1974 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I looked all over the forum. I just wanted to know if a 8gig corsair drive can be partitioned. It would be nice to make true crypt travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 22, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yes, you can partition any flash drive. However, we do not provide a utility to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Hi, just got my voyager 32GB and need to do partion on it. Can someone tell me if Norton PartionMagic work fine on it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 No, Norton partition manager didn't find the drive, BUT Acronis Disk Director did. This was in XP sp2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 31, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 31, 2008 Windows will not support partitioning a removable drive but some applications may be able to over ride this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Can i know which are this application ? also with private msg if you wish. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buxton Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I raised a similar question about 10 days ago and I had a successful outcome using Gparted, one of two freeware recommendations. My regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Thanks but Gparted isn't only for Linux ? No windows app can do partition on usb drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buxton Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Hi med, Gparted can partition hard and flash drives, but I'd backup important stuff first. I have windows but I downloaded Knoppix, which has Gparted and it ran from the CD. I think you can download Gparted in a stand-alone version. My regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I'll searching standalone version. Thanks Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buxton Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Hi med, and all readers and writers, May I suggest you advise your success or failure? I'm pretty sure you'll get help if you have problems. My regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Thanks but Gparted isn't only for Linux ? No windows app can do partition on usb drive ? I think you'll find that Acronis Disk Director can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripodkid Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Hello, I have an 8gb Corsair Voyager Flash drive and created 4 logical partitions for use with MS Windows XP. I have sucessfully created and labled them to the sizes I need (500mb, 500mb, 750mb, >5gb) using GParted 3.6.5. I need 4 different partitions because each will contain an exe file that will only run correctly from the root of the drive it resides on. However, regardless of whether the partitions were formated to NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16, Windows explorer only sees the first partition. But, when I go to disk manager Windows sees all four partitions but it only lets me assign a drive letter or format the first partition. Whenever I try to format or assign a drive letter to any of the remaining three partitions I get the following error message: "The operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled. To enable the partition or volume, restart the computer." However, rebooting does not resolve the issue. Any help and or insight into this problem would be much appreciated. Thx! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripodkid Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 An iso to create a live CD with GParted can be here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=269898 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Hello, I have an 8gb Corsair Voyager Flash drive and created 4 logical partitions for use with MS Windows XP. I have sucessfully created and labled them to the sizes I need (500mb, 500mb, 750mb, >5gb) using GParted 3.6.5. I need 4 different partitions because each will contain an exe file that will only run correctly from the root of the drive it resides on. However, regardless of whether the partitions were formated to NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16, Windows explorer only sees the first partition. But, when I go to disk manager Windows sees all four partitions but it only lets me assign a drive letter or format the first partition. Whenever I try to format or assign a drive letter to any of the remaining three partitions I get the following error message: "The operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled. To enable the partition or volume, restart the computer." However, rebooting does not resolve the issue. Any help and or insight into this problem would be much appreciated. Thx! Chris Same thing for me. After created a partition with Acronis Disk Director Window Xp don't see it and message is "the partition or volume is not enabled" help:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 2, 2008 Windows does not support partitioning removable drives I would delete the partitions and just format the drive as one partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 How i can delete the partition ? Acronis Disk Director can't allow this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 2, 2008 I would try with a Win9X Boot floppy or CD and set the flash drive in your BIOS as a removable HDD and turn off your HDD's or disconnect them and run FDISK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Oh my god ! I refuse DOS. No windows software can delete partition on USB drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Oh my god ! I refuse DOS. No windows software can delete partition on USB drive ? Acronis Disk Director can definitely delete the partitions on a USB drive. My bad: It did, as someone mentioned earlier create allow creation of multiple partitions, but Windows doesn't like that. You would be able to recreate one partition using DD successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buxton Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Med, Gparted is free and it worked for me. I can see and use all 4 partitions of my Flash Voyager 16 GB using windows. The Gparted instructions are not difficult to follow and what have you to lose? My regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 2, 2008 If the application you used to create them will not delete them that is the only way to do it with out damaging the USB drive. You can get boot disks from http://www.bootdisk.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Acronis Disk Director can definitely delete the partitions on a USB drive. How Acronis Disk Director can delete partition ? I can't find this command. I need to restore from windows. I dont'understand nothing of DOS and BIOS....:(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripodkid Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Gparted is free and it worked for me. I can see and use all 4 partitions of my Flash Voyager 16 GB using windows. The Gparted instructions are not difficult to follow and what have you to lose? Mike, What file system did you use and how big are the partitions? Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buxton Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi tripodkid, I chose FAT 32 with: Partitions 1 & 3 3844 MB each Partitions 2 & 4 3836 MB each Free space 1 MB So effectively 4 x 3.75 GB = 15 GB the 1 GB loss (some 6%) is, I read, usual. In any event Corsair (again as usual) take a GB as 1000 MB not 1024 MB. My regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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