How do i make my USB stick have 128mb again?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: How do i make my USB stick have 128mb again?
started by: vandretta

Posted by vandretta on Feb. 03 2006,07:42

I have just taken DSL off my old usb stick to put it onto another one and i have formatted it in windows. Now not only dosent windows see the full 128 mb but i cant delete the 2nd partition on the drive so it can.

This is really frustrating because i need to transfer some files from one computer to another but they are all larger than 49.7mb.

Can anyone help me???

Posted by MakodFilu on Feb. 03 2006,11:15

So you can't format it on Windows, huh? Blame Windows.

I think this user had a similar problem and found the solution. Welcome to DSL forums, and learn to love the Search function ;)

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....windows >

Posted by ChiuCS on Feb. 10 2006,05:02

may be you can try(on linux)
if your usb pendisk is in /dev/sda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nt\n6\nw" | fdisk /dev/sda >/dev/null

(on window format it)