Flash Drives

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Ted Myers
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Flash Drives

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Hello, is it possible to partition a USB Flash Drive and format 1 as FAT32 & the other half as NTFS?
If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have NO luck at all.
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Argus
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Re: Flash Drives

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Depends on OS and version, but the answer is yes (for removable media) in most recent versions.
Some old links (and things may have changed since):
https://borncity.com/win/2017/04/22/win ... n-support/
http://woshub.com/creating-multiple-par ... indows-10/
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Thanks Argus, the reason I asked was because I had FF 64 (bit) portable on a Sandisk in NTFS format. As I always use safely remove, it kept telling me it was still being used by Windows. I have a portable that fixes unremovable usb's but as I am on Win 10, it did'nt work, it did on Win7.
On Googling I found that a USB in FAT format would release easier. It never did. Now I use Task Manager to end it.
If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have NO luck at all.
Windows 11 Home 23H2 Laptop