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One way to Partition a USB Flash Drive from Windows XP and mark it active "bootable". Windows detects Flash Drives as " Removable Disks " and flash drives are typically shipped formatted as a "Super Floppy" (USB-FDD without a partition table) . The Windows built in format utility cannot create a partition table on Removable Disks. Furthermore, the diskpart utility in Windows XP will not allow you to partition Removable Media, although diskpart does work for partitioning a Flash Drive from Windows Vista/7. To address the inability to Partition a Flash Drive in Windows XP, you need to use a third party low level partitioning tool such as BOOTICE, created by Pauly.  BOOTICE Home Page Note : I partition my flash drives as USB-HDD (with a partition table), simply because my computers support booting from Flash Drives formatted to be seen as a USB Hard Disk. One way to Partition a Flash Drive from Windows Download BOOTICE , unzip, and run  BOOTICE.EXE Mak...