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Hello,

What I am attempting to do is make a bootable USB Pen drive. What I am up against is there is a hidden partition on the flash drive that is a CDFS (CD File System) format and is not eraseable nor can I find any utiltiy to delete it.

I have four flash drives that are 512 to 4 Gig in size and every one of them has this hidden partiton. I could use my old 256 meg pen drive but I would like to make the boot flash drive with the larger capacity to hold a complete OS not a Emergency Repair Disk.

The hidden partition stops the pen/flash drive from being bootable, all the utilities I tried to make them bootable failed, the boot sectors are there but they are in the wrong place.

Will your product delete this partition?

Thanks!

You are not alone, many people have been reporting this problem with regard to older flash drives. This is a partition that the manufacturer put on the drive to force windows to recognize the drive in a certain way. Unfortunately it appears that different devices deal with this partition differently, so the solution is drive make and model specific. There is no one tool that will work, it depends on who the manufacturer is and what "model number" you have. The best information I found was in a forum thread located here. I suggest you read through it and you may find some help.

As for WreckDisk, it cannot help you as it will only work on HD0 or "Hard Disk 0" the first most fixed disk. Since all USB devices come after the fixed disks WreckDisk would never be able to "see" your USB device.

HideFlash is a security software to protect files and folders on USB flash drive from viewing them without your permission. Your files and folders are hidden and remain invisible on any computer to which you connect your USB flash drive.

You can use HideFlash 1.2. It contains many nice features and functionalities. It provides files and folders will remain invisible on another machine, your information is stored securly using the best ecnryption algorithms and hides files & folders from USB flash filesystem. Also, you can add different sets of files for multiple users.