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by dmcferran

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I have a 4 GB Sandisk flash drive on which I have inadvertantly erased the original partition, due to trying to downlaod an update from Sandisk to make it compatible with Vista. Windows now gives the capacity as 1 MB, is there any way I can re-format the device to regain 4 GB capacity?

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by p.j.hutchison

Yes, use the Disk Management console in Computer Management console in the Administrative Tools to re-partition and re-format the device.

by dmcferran

Hi, thanks for the reply, unfortunately Disk Management will only see the device as a 1 MB disk and will only offer to re-format as NTFS or FAT. If I try to format as NTFS it then says the device is too small. It will not offer the option of initialising the device either. I probably need some DOS program to get into the device and create a new partition.

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