Windows 10: New partition showing after USB Flash reset.

Hey everyone, I did a reset of my laptop because it might've been infected by something.When I loaded the USB Flash and asked me to what drive I wanted to install Windows 11 I saw 5 partitions. I formatted the main drive and I saw a recovery drive, since I didn't need the files on my laptop I formatted that as well.After this it is now visible as a drive on my laptop, which it previously wasn't.Did I just format a recovery disk that was previously hidden and because it is now formatted to no longer be used as a recovery disk it shows up as a regular drive? Or did I actually harm something?I re

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Partition a USB Flash Drive

USB Partitioning

Do you know the technical part of it? How does the flipping of the removable happen? How can we partition a USB without using a 3rd party software? Can you suggest any programming language? and what algo should I use? thanks!

 

Partition a USB Flash Drive

This is the scary stuff that happens when you use Google:

'USB flash drives cannot be partitioned in the Windows operating if the drive is identified as removable media. The only way to partition the USB flash drive is to flip the removable bit so that it is recognized as fixed media instead which can be partitioned like any normal hard drive'

Infoz/Appz:
Install Windows XP from USB ▷ Bootable Flash Drive

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/17/partition-usb-flash-drives/

I got that from searching for 'partition flash drive'.

I should get paid for this.

 

Partition a USB Flash Drive

I've tried that information and it doesnt work. I've tried this on 4-5 different usb flash drives as well... and, again... Acronis does not work. its been tried a few times