In Windows XP Home edition USB Flash drive

In order to manage the partitions on a hard disk in Windows XP Home edition, I use disk management, which allows me to set sizes of partition and DISKPART, which allows me to CLEAN the MBR or the whole disc. No idea why I need both.

However, when I insert a USB flash drive, partitioning options are not available everywhere, either by right-clicking on it in disk management, or by typing SELECT DISK n in DISKPART, which tells me that the drive number is invalid. A number of the disk that I copied from disk management.

How can I configure WXP as I want to repartition my USB?

Hello

We cannot create a partition on a USB flash drive in Windows.

See the following articles for more information about disk management and Diskpart.

Overview of disk management
http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_diskconcepts_02a.mspx?mfr=true

Disk management
http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/snap_disk_admin.mspx?mfr=true

Disk management
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457110.aspx

DiskPart
http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/Diskpart.mspx?mfr=true

A Description of the Diskpart command-line utility
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/300415

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