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How to turn my flash drive to its original state?

By lamentofking ·
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?

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Try formatting it...

by boxfiddler Moderator In reply to How to turn my flash driv ...

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

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by Jacky Howe In reply to How to turn my flash driv ...

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

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

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conclusion

by lamentofking In reply to You

fdisk fixed it thanks TB.

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No Probs :) <NT>

by Jacky Howe In reply to conclusion
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