usb stick partition problem
 

Hello,

I'd like to format my USB in 2 partition: one fat32 (for data switch windows/linux and one for only windows. But when I use gparted to partition my stick in my backtrack installation, windows can only read the fat32, but not the ntfs. How can I solve this problem?

I had such an Idea few times ago (FAT2 + ext3). But USB sticks seems only to accept 1 type of partition (so far what I understood as newbie till now)..
So, why you dont keep a single partition?
FAT32 is quite easy to be read by any system.

Partition the fat32 with wins machine then you can read and write.

Thanks for your answers, but except the fat32 partition, I'd like to have a ntfs for windows files. This because files bigger than (I think) 5 GB can not be transferred to the stick with a fat32 partition.

To impliment NTFS filesystem follow these steps.

Hope it'll help you.

Windows can't read multiple partitions on usb drives.

Every modern distro can mount ntfs read write with ntfs-3g. May be as simple as mount in gui with right click option as writeable.