Reformatting a 2 partition Thumb Drive

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lessthansix

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I have an edge diskgo thumb drive. It came with 2 partitions. A large one for storage and a small one the size of a floppy disk for utilities.

My question is if it's possible to reformat the drive so that it will have only one partition. I don't think it can be done thru Windows "disk management" because it only lets me format them individually.
 
I believe you'll have to remove the partitions when reinstalling Windows in the bios. Or, if you're not putting Windows on the drive, you can just reformat and change the partitions in the bios.
 
DCIScouts said:
I believe you'll have to remove the partitions when reinstalling Windows in the bios. Or, if you're not putting Windows on the drive, you can just reformat and change the partitions in the bios.
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Partitioning has nothing to do with going into the bios...
 
The_Other_One said:
Partitioning has nothing to do with going into the bios...
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partially.. without a bios you couldnt create partitions :P

but you're right ofc, to remove partitions you dont have to be at the bios, but in the booted windows setup. altough.. i dont think you can format the external HD with it.
a better option to the windows setup would be Partition Magic ( thats the name of the program) its also a bootdisk, but im pretty sure it can do USB HD's too.

altough.. i really wonder.. is it worth the effort? like you said.. its just the size of a floppy ;)
 
Archangel said:
partially.. without a bios you couldnt create partitions :P
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Eh, but that's beside the point :rolleyes:

As for paritioning in the setup, I beleive it is possible with some computers as they now can use removable drives(harddrives or flash drives) as harddrives. However, Computer Management or some 3rd party app as Archangel mentioned would be a much better option.
 
ok I'll be a bit more specific... I want to use the thumb drive to play mp3's on my JVC cd player (it has a usb port). The problem is that when the diskgo is inserted into the cd player as well as my computer, the smaller "floppy" drive is recognized first. The computer can ofcourse recognize both partitions whereas the cd player can only recognize the first one it sees.

I need a way other than thru windows to reformat the thumb drive so that I can give it one partition. I tried changing the bios to boot to my thumb drive, which I know is possible because my bios is the latest version of phoenix-award. However it doesn't recognize the t.d. when I reboot the computer.

I was hoping there was a way to reformat without going thru bios and dos. But I know for sure that it can't be done with disk management because windows lists the 2 partitions as if they're separate drives.

Ofcourse there's also the possibility that the diskgo has 2 separate drives rather than 2 partitions. On the Edgetech website they have an FAQ that states: "The smaller 1.44 MB partition on our pen drives holds the security software you can use to unlock the DiskGo on computers that don't have the software installed. This partition is separate from the main space on the DiskGo"

If that's the case then there's probably nothing I can do, but I hoped there was some software or some method that would let me atleast find out if it can be formatted.
 
Some of the SanDisk drives have the same thing. I've tried to get rid of that extra crap myself and haven't had much success, I'd suggest going out and getting another brand, I know Memorex ones don't have that on it. (I have both a SanDisk and Memorex...)
 
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