How Do I Flip The RMB Bit For Multiple Partitions On A USB Drive?

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I just bought a 32GB Supersonic Rage XT USB 3.0 Flash Drive and found out that you can't have multiple partitions on a USB drive unless it has the removable drive bit flipped. However, the only tool I could see was a Lexar one that was 32 bit from a few years ago and no one could confirm it works. Someone else was using a partition program where they would have to open it up and use it to select only one partition on the drive to be usable at a time but that sounds like a pain in the ass.

Basically I just want three partitions: one for Windows 8 iso installs, one for a System RescueCD and the third one for data which I don't want to have to delete if I update the files in the first two. Then if I wanted to make either the Linux or Windows partition bootable I could just use diskpart to make that partition active.

There's a thread in the Patriot support forums that was started two years ago and they don't support it and haven't given updates:
http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?7567-Removeable-Media-Bit-Utility

Corsair supports it:
http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/create-separate-partitions-on-your-corsair-usb-flash-drive/

Does anyone know how to have multiple partitions on a USB Drive in Windows 8?
 
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