Is it possible to create many partitions on a USB stick ?

You can partition a USB Flash Drive by using Bootice.You can also access each of the partitions one by one.http://agnipulse.com///partition-usb-flash-drive/

Hello, if you are using vista/windows 7 you can use disk management to partition your drive.  If you are planning to do it this way, I would format the disk first.  I thought I would show you the following first:

http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/231/~/partitioning-a-usb-flash-drive

Here is another option on how to do it:

http://techtips.salon.com/partition-usb-sandisk-151.html

BootIt utility by Lexar:

http://www.getusb.info/flip-your-bit-usb-utility-to-make-local-drive/

Yes it's possible

But first you have to change your removable USB stick to a basic USB Stick, this requires changing the drivers

Couple of items you’ll need:

·         USB_LocalDisk.zip files [download here: http://www.getusb.info/wp-content/USB_LocalDisk.zip]

·         USB stick

1.     Save the “cfadisk.inf” on your USB stick so you may use it at different locations when updating your home or work computer.

2.     To partition your USB stick using the Windows utilities you can find that function by:

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management under the Storage folder. 

What we will do, is connected the USB stick, find the driver code, update the driver code and re-connect the device.  Simple.

inside the Wizard we need to follow specific instructions to manually update the driver to change your USB stick to a hard drive or Local Disk.  It’s easy, just follow along…

Select:  Install from a list or specific location > Next

Select:  Don’t Search.  I will choose the driver to install > Next

Select: Have Disk…

Navigate to the location of the “cfadisk.inf” file > click Open

Select: Next in the Windows wizard and that’s it!  You may need to reconnect your device to the OS.

If you have a USB hard disk (classed as a 'Fixed Disk' by Windows), you will find that Windows can format that disk with multiple primary and logical partitions. However, most USB Flash drives are set as 'Removable Drives' when shipped by the USB drive manufacturer which means that Windows will only access one partition on the drive.

The first sector of a partitioned disk is called the Master Boot Record (MBR). Near the end of this sector is the partition table which can contain up to four primary partition entries. One (and only one) of these table entries can be an Extended Partition entry. An Extended Partition entry points to another Extended Partition table which contains one or two entries (a logical partition entry and optionally another Extended Partition entry). In this way it is possible to have much more than four partitions on a drive.

So an MBR partition table can have:

1-Up to four Primary Partition entries; or 2-Up to three Primary Partitions and one Extended partition entry.

On a 'removable' drive (like most USb Flash drives), Windows will only recognise the first raw or Windows-formatted primary partition in the partition table.

Actually, it will mount the first primary partition it finds that has a non-zero partition type and that is formatted with a format recognized by Windows, starting from the first entry in the partition table.

This means that even if you create a multi-partitioned USB Flash Drive (most of which are set as 'Removable Drives' when shipped by the manufacturer), Windows will not mount the other volumes or assign drive letters to them.

One common solution to this problem is to set the USB Flash Drive (UFD) to be a 'Fixed Disk' by 'flipping the RMB bit' in the UFD controller using the Lexar BootIt.exe utility. However, this only works on certain UFD controlllers (e.g. some models of Lexar, HP, Verbatim, Netac).

Another common solution is to install either the Hitachi Microdrive Filter cfadisk.sys or the dummydisk.sys driver by Anton Bassov.

 Note that cfadisk.inf can be dynamically added using drvload.exe, but all drive file handles must be closed or you will get a 'a reboot is required' message. You can instead just unplug and re-connect the USB driver immediately after installing the driver. For WinPE Setup scenarios. These two methods have the advantage that you can create and access any number of primary and logical volumes on your UFD under Windows at any time.

But also you have two other methods:

1. EaseUS Home Partition Master + RMPrepUSB

2. BootIce. This is a disk partitioning, formatting and editing tool, however the English button labels are sometimes confusing or misleading although it is a very useful and powerful utility.

A useful feature in both BootIce and RMPrepUSB is that they can re-arrange the Master Boot Record partition table entries so that you can place any one of the four partition tables at the beginning of the MBR partition table. This is very useful as it means you can have up to four Primary Partitions on a UFD and access them one at a time by getting BootIce to re-order the partition table so that the first partition table entry is accessible by Windows.

Open the computer managment console and on the left side select disk management

1. In the Disk Management window, complete one of the following procedures, and then continue:    - To create a new partition, right-click unallocated or RAW space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, and then click New Partition (Win XP)orNew Simple Volume (Win Vista,7 and8).

2. In the New Partition Wizard clickNext

3. For the partition or volume size use the default settings which will create a single partition on the card/USB drive. Click Next

4. Assign a drive letter for the card/USB drive. (make sure to select a drive letter not currently being used by another drive)

5. Choose the file system in which you would like to format the card/USB drive. We would recommend FAT or exFAT. Click Next6.Click Finishto complete partitioning and formatting the drive

yes it is possible i will personally prefer the easeus partition manager for the job.

yes we can use partition magic software for this purpose.

or you can make partition by using windows xp setup. 

i think it's possible but the big question is way u wanna partition a USB Flash Drive i think it's not necessary