{"id":2380,"date":"2017-06-15T02:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2023-08-01T03:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T03:39:28","slug":"how-to-repartition-usb-stick-flash-drive-or-sd-card-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-repartition-usb-stick-flash-drive-or-sd-card-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to repartition a USB stick, flash drive or SD card in Windows 11\/10?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to partition or repartition a USB flash drive, USB stick or SD card in Windows 11\/10\/8\/7? In this article, you can find multiple solutions to repartition USB drives under Windows 11\/10\/8\/7. Besides, this instruction includes a solution to partition a USB drive without losing data. If you want to partition a USB stick, keep reading!<\/p>\n

About repartitioning a USB drive \/ SD card<\/span><\/h1>\n

When someone partitions a storage disk, the result is creating an isolated section with each partition regarded as a separated area. For instance, you set up two partitions on a 500GB hard drive, one of which is 100GB for Windows system. The other partition acts like an individual distinct which can store data or install a different operating system such as Linux.<\/p>\n

The capacity of USB flash drives or SD cards gets larger and many users find it useful to partition them to organize data in an easier manner. Likewise repartitioning a hard drive, the process to partition or repartition a USB flash drive is easy with the help of proper tools and instructions. People use storage devices almost frequently at work or home, but not too many of them actual know what or how to partition storage media even though their HDD or USB drive have been repartitioned.<\/p>\n

Repartitioning a flash drive or hard drive can divide the disk into one or multiple partitions based on personal requirements. Since there are not special rules on the partition number, size, file system formats, partition type, partition table format, etc., users can set these parameters on their own habits or needs. Thus, both hard drives and USB drives can be partitioned into single or multiple volumes. There are multiple ways to repartition a USB flash drive, SD card or hard drives, for example, some users are used to using DiskPart, while some prefer to third-party free partition manager software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Important: <\/strong>No matter which method you choose to repartition a USB drive, the process reformats the drive, which means all existing partitions and data will be erased. Therefore, you should make sure all files on the USB drive have been backed up before repartitioning it, or you\u2019ll lose current partitions and files together.<\/p>\n

How to repartition a USB stick, flash drive or SD card?<\/span><\/h1>\n

Here are two methods to partition \/ repartition a USB drive, and you can follow either of them to complete the operation. The first method partitions the USB drive with Diskpart commands and the second method partitions the USB stick using Windows partition manager software DiskGenius Free Edition.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Repartition a USB flash drive using DiskPart<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Connect the removable disk to your computer so that it can be recognized by Windows.<\/li>\n
  2. Launch Command Prompt as Administrator. Windows 10 and 8.1: right-click \u201cStart\u201d button and then select \u201cCommand Prompt (Admin)\u201d; Windows 7: click Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories, and then right click \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d from the list to choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d.<\/li>\n
  3. Type following commands with each ending up with pressing Enter key:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    diskpart<\/pre>\n
    list disk<\/pre>\n
    select disk # (replace # with the number of the USB drive you want to repartition)<\/pre>\n
    clean<\/pre>\n
    create partition primary<\/pre>\n
    format fs=fat32 quick (if you want to format the USB drive to NTFS, then replace fat32 with NTFS)<\/pre>\n
    Method 2: Repartition a USB stick with free partition manager software<\/span><\/h2>\n
    This method repartitions flash drive using DiskGenius Free<\/a> (formerly known as Eassos PartitionGuru), a third-party disk & partition management tool. It’s able to partition removable devices, hard drives, virtual disks and SSDs and makes the disk 4K sector aligned. This free partition manager can create or format partition to exFAT, NTFS, FAT32, EXT4, EXT3 and EXT2 file system. Besides, it is able to increate, resize, extend, shrink or split existing partitions without data loss for all storage devices.<\/p>\n
    Here is the process to repartition a USB stick.<\/p>\n
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    1. Install and launch DiskGenius (formerly known as Eassos PartitionGuru) and plug the USB drive to your computer. Then you can see the drive in the disk list.<\/li>\n
    2. Select the USB stick to be repartitioned and click “Quick Partition” button or press F6 key. Then the disk partition window opens up.<\/li>\n
    3. Select partition number, partition table type, partition size, volume name, drive letter, etc. based on your demands. Then click “OK” button and DiskGenius starts partitioning the drive.\"partition<\/li>\n
    4. Close the program when the process completes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Vidoe guide on how to repartition USB drive in Windows:<\/p>\n