deleting flash drive partitions in windows?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: deleting flash drive partitions in windows?
started by: marla

Posted by marla on Feb. 20 2006,17:20

is there any way to delete the partitions on my thumb drive, and use more than 50 megs of my 256? i do not have a live cd anymore and am only running linux ... any ideas out there? i tried some free partition managers, no go ...

Posted by doobit on Feb. 20 2006,17:32

You can use cfdisk or fdisk in Linux to delete all of the partitions and write a new partition table. Then Windows or Linux can format the drive as FAT16 or FAT32.

Posted by The Prophet on Feb. 24 2006,07:04

Quote (doobit @ Feb. 20 2006,12:32)

You can use cfdisk or fdisk in Linux to delete all of the partitions and write a new partition table. Then Windows or Linux can format the drive as FAT16 or FAT32.

How do you get cfdisk or fdisk to work on a USB device?

I have tried both and they would only recognise my hard drives (hda) not ny USB drive taht is sda.

Posted by doobit on Feb. 24 2006,17:58

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/IBM7248-HOWTO/cfdisk.html