I've been enjoying win7 so far, But I'm really unamused with it's inability to accept a partitioned USB key. It's a little silly. Why is this still an issue under a windows OS?

Could you give a little more info on how the partition was created, whether the partition is marked hidden, inactive, etc?Reason I ask for more info is on 6 of the 6 Win 7 machines I have access to, a factory partitioned Sandisk with U3 support shows up as two drives in "My Computer".In other words it works for that case, what might be the difference with yours?DAS

The key in question is a Kingston 8gB data traveler USB2.0In windows, it does not allow the option of partitioning the device.If I create one partition using a Fedora live CD: fdisk /dev/sda d //delete configuration 1 //select first / only partition n //create new partition p //primary partition 1 //partition #1 1 //starting cylinder 15 //ending cylinder @~110MB t //change type c // Fat32 win95 (LDA) This partition of only 110MB shows up perfectly fine in Windows Vista. But the remaining 7.8GB of space on the USB key remains unpartitioned, and win7 stats it cannot partition / format it because it is removable media.I can then go back to the live CD, follow essentially the same steps outlined above to create a second partition on the device using the remaining 7.8GB, win7 recognizes the first partition on the drive, giving it a drive letter. But the second partition, though this time recognized as formatted, win7 will not assign a drive letter.And for the record, both partitions were accessible and had files stored and retrieved while under fedora liveCD 12.