Monday, April 13, 2009

Partition USB Stick Storage, External Hard Drive, Pen Drive For Windows

Multiple Partitions on USB Stick Storage, External Hard Drive, Pen Drive And hack Windows to recognize all the USB partition as LOCAL DISK.
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This tutorial will allow you to create partitions on any USB Stick storage or External Hard Drive
Now you can make WBFS Partition for Wii USB Loader, And other FAT36 or NTFS, and access the two partition from Windows also can copy your Wii Games from Windows too!



Access DEVICE MANAGER:
Start > Run > devmgmt.msc
Or
My Pc > Right Click > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager...
Follow the instruction by the numbers on the Picture...
Locate Your Device, From the Disk Driver !
At 6th step, Make a exactly note of the selected area, Using Notepad

Example:
USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Kingston&Prod_DaraTraveler_2.0&Rev_PMAP


Select and copy created note, of your Device Instance ID


Now unzip the downloaded file to your desktop and open cfadisk.inf in Notepad


Replace all selected parts in the image, by the one you have copied from the Notepad
Then File > Save…
File > Exit…
Now Access DEVICE MANAGER:
Start > Run > devmgmt.msc
Or
My Pc > Right Click > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager...
Follow the instruction by the numbers on the Pictures...

Important: when presses BROWSE, you have to locate your unzipped files
(cfadisk.inf and cfadisk.sys) And select cfadisk.inf”In this case the files are located on the Desktop
Just follow the picture

After pressing Yes, Wait a moment when the driver is being installed!
Restart the computer after the installation is recommended.
……
You are done! Congratulation!
Now you will see your USB Stick Storage as LOCAL DISK
That’s mean, you can make any number of partitions with different format too if you like (FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, EXT2 {Only Linux} etc…) and Windows will recognize them all, as LOCAL DISKS


If you don’t have any Partitions program, so that’s no problem

My Pc > Right Click > Manage
Storage > Disk Management

Localize your External Drive (Normally by the Label or Drive letter)
Now backup all your data on the USB Stick Storage or External Hard Drive….
(Make sure that’s the USB Stick is Selected, not the System Disk “C” or “D” normally)

Then delete partition



Then create partitions as you like!
2009/04/12

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