Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your PC it doesn't show up. We're going to look at a few ways to fix that problem.

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately.

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

A computer can recognize a second partition on a USB hard drive only if it can read the partition. If computer is unable to read the secondary partition, the partition may be in an unsupported format ...