There is no way you can partition USB pen
drives. They show up as a removable drive on the PC. In order to do so,
you need to trick the operating system into recognizing the USB pen
drive as a fixed hard drive. To do this, you will need to create your
own set of drivers. In this workshop, we shall demonstrate just that.
Doing so, you can create multiple partitions and store your private data
on it. Only the first partition will be visible, and the other
partitions will not show up on any other PC, but your own.
This way, you can store your personal data away from your friends and
family, and also you can avoid viruses affecting this data when plugged
in on another computer. To do this, all you need is a simple universal
USB pen drive driver, which can be downloaded from
‘http://www.mediafire.com/?oqlgdvcymzz’. Download the archive,
uncompress it to a folder on your desktop and get started. Don’t forget
to backup the contents of your pen drive, as it will format it.
Step 1: Plug in your pen drive into your PC’s USB
port. Next, right-click on ‘My Computer’ and click on ‘Manage’ in the
context menu. Click on ‘Device Manager’ on the left pane. This will show
all the hardware devices connected to your PC. 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’.
Selecting properties for the flash drive
Step 2: In the properties window that 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.
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’).
Modifying the flash driver
Step 4: Now locate the words
‘device_instance_id_goes_here’, which is available on line 26. You need
to replace these words with the string you just copied to the clipboard
from the Device Manager. Save the file and close the editor.