There are many ways and tools to hide or protect important data on a USB Flash Drive.However a simple format of the USB Flash Drive can erase the important data.
Using Fbinst, a hidden partition can be created to store important data.This hidden partition stays even after formatting the USB Flash Drive.

Transcend JetFlash JF620 USB Flash Drives have a 11mb CDFS partition containing SecureDrive and other files.Many people do not want this CDFS partition.Officially this CDFS partition cannot be removed or modified.However there is a way to remove or modify this CDFS partition.

A guide for beginners to create a customized version Windows PE using MakePE3 without Windows Automated Installation Kit and the Windows Install DVD.All you need is a genuine copy of Windows 7 installed on your computer.

Fbinst is a really good USB Flash Disk formatting tool.However there are no deb or rpm packages for Fbinst.So you have to compile it from the source to use it in Linux.

A friend of mine was really impressed with Burg Boot Loader.He installed it on his Acer Laptop running Linux Mint.After a few days he came and told me that he was not satisfied with the default burg themes.So I told him about Burg-Manager which can install additional Burg Themes.He was still not satisfied.He wanted to use his own image as background in the boot menu.