# Partitioning a flash drive?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 30-Dec-2010 2:05:50

OK. I have a sixteen gigabyte flash drive that I want to partition. I want to first make it into two parts, one being 4gb, the other 12gb. Then, I want to password protect one of the partitions. Can anyone tell me how?

## Post 2 by Nitrogen (Zone BBS Addict) on Saturday, 01-Jan-2011 17:50:21

Hi,
here's a rough idea on how I would go about doing this:

## Post 3 by Nitrogen (Zone BBS Addict) on Saturday, 01-Jan-2011 17:54:38

oops,
Rather from:
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## Post 4 by The Lil Dark Piggy (This site is so "educational") on Saturday, 01-Jan-2011 18:47:42

What good partitioningprograms work under windows7? You know, someone should right JFW scritps for Paragon Partition manager, its accessible to a certain extent. I had mentioned Windows 7 because Partition Magic does not work with that OS, and neather does it work with Windows Vista.

## Post 5 by Nitrogen (Zone BBS Addict) on Sunday, 02-Jan-2011 5:18:42

Hi,
I was able to use paragon just fine, however, I don't prefer it to be my favorite because, although it is very accessible in terms of the wizzards, in terms of navigating the menu's, jaws would sometimes crash when applying the changes to the partitions.
My favorite program I use is Acronis Disk director 2010, specificly version 2169
This program is not accessible, where you can just tab around, use the up or down arrows, it requires the use of the jaws cursor, then you can use the up or down arrows and what not to do your partitioning operations.
I think on their site, it might say that it doesn't work with windows 7, however, I use it just fine.
It has a program called OS selector, but I don't use it, as I manage my multi-boot with other tools, and the OS selector program, is I think the problem why many people feel that Acronis dd doesn't work under windows 7.
Bottom line, Use just the dd program and not OS selector and things will be just fine.
Many of my friends had told me that 2011 is also accessible, however, when I tried it, the layout was quite different, and not all of the features were available in the 2011 version.
I think I can say the same thing for other products of acronis, where accessibility seems to be fading away, and very fast.
However, I do not discourage you from trying their 2011 products, if you feel its Accessible for you, by all means, use it, but I was merely just giving my personal opinion.
Another program I use in windows 7 which is built-in, is called diskpart, it is a command-line based program, hence one has to learn the necessary commands to use it. Myself, I just use it for cleaning disks, formatting partitions, making them active, and although I'm quite fine using command-line programs, the trouble with me is actually remembering them, as I don't like to read the help over and over. So I'm slowly learning the commands.
Another good thing I like about diskpart, is that you can script the commands in to a normal text file.
Oh yes, and there's the usual disk management. where you can do similar things that you can do with diskpart, but I just feel diskpart works better, it is much quicker then having to go through all the menu's.

## Post 6 by The Lil Dark Piggy (This site is so "educational") on Sunday, 02-Jan-2011 11:23:35

I used the beta of Acronus 2011 beta it wasn't accessible at all. Not even the installer for it wasn't accessible. Mind you, this was aroud, July. And yes I did notice that with Paragon Partition manager 2011