Partition your USB stick into multiple drives
1 Once you’ve removed all files from your USB stick, open Windows’ Disk Management tool by clicking the Start menu, typing create and format 1 then selecting ‘Create and format hard disk partitions’
2 You should see your USB stick listed in the bottom half of the window, labelled Removable 1 . To the right of this, you’ll see a box containing your drive’s letter 2 and its capacity (28.96 GB 3 on our stick).
3 Right-click the box to the left of the drive’s name, select Properties, then ‘Delete Volume…’ 1 . It’s vital to select the correct drive here – if in doubt, remove your USB stick then reinsert it, noting which drive disappears then reappears. When prompted, click Yes to continue.
4 You should now see a single box labelled Unallocated 1 . Right-click this, then select ‘New Simple Volume…’, followed by Next. In the ‘Simple volume size…’ box, enter the desired size of your first partition in megabytes (we’ve set it to 10,000MB 2 , which is 10GB).
5 You’ll now see your new partition 1 along with a box labelled Unallocated 2 to the right of it (this is the space on your USB stick that’s not taken up by the first partition). Right-click the Unallocated box and repeat the process in Step 4. You can keep doing this until you’ve allocated all the space on your USB stick.
6 When you’ve finished creating your partitions, close the Disk Management window, then open File Explorer (press Windows key+e). You should now see your USB stick’s new partitions displayed as individual drives (we created three