So enter the amount of storage space to use for the new drive partitions in that text box. Next, you should right-click the USB stick listed on the Disk Management window and select the Shrink Volume option.Ī window that includes an Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB text box then opens. Now press the Win key + X hotkey and select Disk Management to open the window shown directly below. Press the Start button on the window and then click OK to format the external drive in NTFS. That will open the window directly below from which you can select NTFS on the File system drop-down menu. If the drive isn’t formatted with NTFS, you can right-click the USB drive in File Explorer and select Format from the context menu. You can check the file system by clicking This PC in File Explorer, right-clicking the USB drive and selecting Properties.

Then format your USB drive with the NTFS file system if it isn’t already. Again click on Create and you should be able to see your newly formed partitions in your Windows Explorer.Insert the USB drive into a desktop’s or laptop’s USB slot. Only this time we will set the file system to be NTFS. When creating a second partition we will continue to do as we did whilst creating the first partition.

We will name our Partitions Volume 1 & 2, but you are free to name them as you wish.

Make sure that under Partition Attributes you check Assign Drive Letter, Format New Partition and set the file system of your preference. Use the slider to set the size of your soon to be created partition. Right-click on the unallocated space and from the context menu click Create New Partition.

In front of us, we have Kingston USB drive which we will partition into two separate volumes. For example, you need a USB that will work on WinXP and its FAT32 file system but you also need the comfort of NTFS which supports files larger than 4GB.įor the purpose of this demonstration, we will be using our Free Tool Partition Manager which you can download from here. Multiple partitions can be useful if you use your USB drive on multiple systems. If you have ever got into a situation where you might need two or more partitions on your USB and didn’t know how to create them, you are in the right place. How to create two or more partitions on one USB?

How to format usb drive into multiples