USB flash drives cannot be partitioned in the Windows operating if the drive is identified as removable media. The only way to partition the USB flash drive is to flip the removable bit so that it is recognized as fixed media instead which can be partitioned like any normal hard drive.
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HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
There is no direct way of making an USB device bootable in the Windows operating system. Probably even more bothersome to some Windows users is the fact that USB storage devices can only be formatted with the FAT file system and not the NTFS file system. HP’s USB Disk Storage Format Tool (download) works with [...]