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Partition a flash drive

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by djustus

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I have a 64Gb flash drive that Windows XP is having problems accessing because it is Fat32 which has a size limit of 32Gb. How can I partition it to 2 32Gb partitions?

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by Former member

Change the drive in question to "NTFS", then you will be able to access the whole drive.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

by djustus

I tried to use Windows to format the drive as NTFS. First it told me it couldn't format a removable drive that was optimized for quick removal as NTFS and told me I had to change it. So I changed it to "Optimized for Performance". Now when I format the drive it errors out at the very end of the format procedure. So at this point the flash drive is unusable. I've tried a few different partitioning programs I've found online and they either don't recognize the drive or crash when they try to read it. If you have any other suggestions I am open to try anything. Thanks in advance.

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