I booted up my Kali install and did the following:
The sdc1 partition is 8192M in size, half the size of the drive.

Code:
# fdisk /dev/sdc

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 16.2 GB, 16231956480 bytes
141 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7026 cylinders, total 31703040 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x45bab27f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *        2048        8291        3122    b  W95 FAT32

# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1

# dd if=kali.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=512k
dd: writing `/dev/sdc1': No space left on device
7+0 records in
6+0 records out
3146240 bytes (3.1 MB) copied, 0.218116 s, 14.4 MB/s

# dd if=kali.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=512k

# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

# fdisk /dev/sdc 

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 16.2 GB, 16231956480 bytes
141 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7026 cylinders, total 31703040 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x45bab27f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *          64     4602239     2301088   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS