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Hey there!
A coworker handed me a USB stick in order to turn it into a copy of the default test-stick around here. I then noticed that it seems to have two partitions.. but not just partitions.. its effectively recognized as two devices with each half the capacity. Its listed twice in the w7 device manager, w7 drives management, w7 DiskPart, w8/PE5 DiskPart, MiniDisk Partition Wizard, CheckFlash, Ghost 11.5 under DOS and xfdisk under DOS 6.22. And regular fdisk under DOS 6.22 won't recognize it at all. I low level formatted both, cleaned and deleted partitions with all used tools, the fact that its recognized as two devices did not change.
So: What tool to use to change the way the drive is recognized, not just handle the partitions..!? Any suggestions? Maybe something via registry? I am sure a Unix/Linux-platform would provide a usable solution, but I don't have anything alike at hand and I'd like to avoid a massive download due to the crappy connection here.
Any ideas?
Regards
Thomas
A coworker handed me a USB stick in order to turn it into a copy of the default test-stick around here. I then noticed that it seems to have two partitions.. but not just partitions.. its effectively recognized as two devices with each half the capacity. Its listed twice in the w7 device manager, w7 drives management, w7 DiskPart, w8/PE5 DiskPart, MiniDisk Partition Wizard, CheckFlash, Ghost 11.5 under DOS and xfdisk under DOS 6.22. And regular fdisk under DOS 6.22 won't recognize it at all. I low level formatted both, cleaned and deleted partitions with all used tools, the fact that its recognized as two devices did not change.
So: What tool to use to change the way the drive is recognized, not just handle the partitions..!? Any suggestions? Maybe something via registry? I am sure a Unix/Linux-platform would provide a usable solution, but I don't have anything alike at hand and I'd like to avoid a massive download due to the crappy connection here.
Any ideas?
Regards
Thomas