I have a 4GB thumb drive that I want to partition so that I can boot from it and install an OS. However, in Windows XP, when I run CMD and then DISKPART, I cannot find the thumb drive listed anywhere.

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I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...