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    How to Format my USB drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by zijin_cheng, Sep 20, 2011.

  1. zijin_cheng

    zijin_cheng Notebook Evangelist

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    I got a USB drive which is 2Gb, but they someone reserved part of that, about 750MB for a "CD" drive.

    Now whenever I plug in the USB drive, all I get is "removable Disk E" 1.13GB
    and CD Drive H with 750Mb

    How do I reclaim that 750MB from CD Drive H and merge it back into "Removable Disk E"?
     
    zijin_cheng, Sep 20, 2011
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  2. V_Chip

    V_Chip Be about it.

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    I use the diskpart utility or disk management.
     
    V_Chip, Sep 20, 2011
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  3. zijin_cheng

    zijin_cheng Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry I explained it bad so you don't seem to understand.
    I was given thiis flash drive as an advertising gimmick. They somehow reserved 750Mb out of the 2Gb and created an unformattable CD Drive partition with all their advertisements in it, and left the rest as free space.

    Using diskpart, or disk management, even paragon partition manager, does not let me format the CD drive in any way, in short, they somehow created a read only CD drive on my USB.

    EDIT: I even tried Low level disk format utility and it didn't work
     
    zijin_cheng, Sep 20, 2011
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  4. V_Chip

    V_Chip Be about it.

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    Don't format. Delete.
     
    V_Chip, Sep 20, 2011
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  5. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    try using diskpart and doing a "clean"
     
    goofball, Sep 20, 2011
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    BlackLion Notebook Consultant

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    Is the 2nd partition E: read-only too? If so, it actually could be some encased drive - in this case you might need to disassemble it and if you're lucky enough there might be some mini-toggle on the board to disable write protection.
     
    BlackLion, Sep 25, 2011
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  7. Hiker

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    If you can't format it, you can buy a 2GB USB drive for $5
     
    Hiker, Sep 25, 2011
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  8. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    Ah, but where's the fun in that? Much more fun trying to get past that extra junk to make the freebie your own. :)

    Cheers,
     
    panzer06, Sep 25, 2011
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    Primes, Sep 25, 2011
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  10. James D

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    I recently read about how to make CD-Rom on USB flash drive. It lets you write iso images on it and use it like CD. For installing windows XP for example.

    Use CD-ROM Remover_v1.0.0.3. or JFFormat_v2.0.0.3
     
    James D, Sep 25, 2011
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