USB booting :: I think DSL killed my Kingston 1GB

I recently purchased a 1GB Kingston Data traveler. I'd been wanting to try out the DSL USB install for quite a while on my laptop. Well, I ran the install from teh live cd and it installed fine, but alas my laptop can only boot from USB floppy. I tried both the USB-ZIP emulation and the USB-HDD emulation installs. Neither worked, so I plugged the drive into my XP pc and deleted all the files. Well, now when I got to format the drive, it is only recognized as able to be formatted to 50 mb! It doesn't seem that XP can format it to any higher capacity. Is there a way to get back my capacity? If not, then this lovely 1GB drive is suddenly useless to me.

Hi cius!

When you do the USB-ZIP emulation, DSL creates two partitions: a 50 mb partition for DSL and a second partition for everything else. Windows can only see the first partition.
I think you should do another USB-HDD emulation (so DSL will create one big partition again) and then go back to windows and format the USB drive.
I think this is not the best way but it should work.

Thanks MaxGyver, I'll try that. I hope it works.

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