Join or sign in Register for your free TechRepublic membership or if you are already a member, sign in using your preferred method below. Use Your Email Use FacebookUse Linkedin

How to turn my flash drive to its original state?

Locked

Ok I have a 2 gb flash drive. I wanted to put a persistent ubuntu linux on it which involved partitioning. Well it partitioned to like 750 MB. So I decided to get rid of it. I booted the live cd and deleted the partition. When I try to see how much space is on it in windows xp, it still says 750 MB. How can I return it to the original 2 GB?

Topic

Clarifications

In reply to How to turn my flash drive to its original state?

Clarifications

Try formatting it…

In reply to How to turn my flash drive to its original state?

using the Windows formatting utility. Right-click on it and choose Format from the context menu. Format it FAT if you can.

You

In reply to How to turn my flash drive to its original state?

will be better off using fdisk to remove the Non DOS Partition. Non DOS = Linux. You will need a DOS Boot Disk that has fdisk.

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html

< scroll to the bottom of the page >

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

conclusion

In reply to You

fdisk fixed it thanks TB.

No Probs :)

In reply to conclusion

.

[Author]

Replies