Does anyone have experience of partitioning a USB thumbdrive? Apparently normally you cannot do this to a removable drive but there is a flippable bit that enables this and at least one tool to flip it with, but maybe some downside if you do?
My interest is with a tablet I'd like to be able to image it to a thumbdrive, OK no problem, but having made the image how does the "dead in the water" tablet access and recover the image?
With single purpose thumbdrives that would seem to involve juggling thumbdrives or using multiple USB sockets on the tablet if available or ..... using another computer or ....
If I could save the image to a thumbdrive that contains a bootable utility to restore the image to the original "drive" in the tablet. Of course I've never tried making the recovery thumbdrive with the bootable utility on it and then adding the image file to it afterwards -- maybe this would work for this particular task.
I can think of other uses for a partitioned thumbdrive if there are no serious downsides to doing it. One would be using a larger thumbdrive for a number of different purposes instead of the added overhead cost and inconvenience of multiple thumbdrives.