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How do you partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive?

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Mar 15, 2026177654 views
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Out of the box, Windows will not allow you to partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive. How can you do this? In case anyone is wondering Why you would do this? It's interesting in the case of a BitLocker ToGo drive where you can take a large thumbdrive (like 4 or 8 GB) and format a small amount of the d…

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It can be done with a command line tool called The steps (on Windows 10) are as follows: Click the windows icon Type (do not hit enter) Right click the 'Command Prompt' option (it was the first option for me), select 'Run as administrator' and click…

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