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Did I break my USB drive?

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1 minute ago, Nekotronics said:

Hey guys, So I recently decided to try to install linux on one of my computers. I formatted my 32GB drive with a program called Win32DiskImager, and now it shows up as only being 4MB in size. Anyone have any things I could try? or did I brick my drive? I've tried to format it with the windows formatting option but it didn't seem to do anything. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

No, you didn't. You just created a 4GB partition on it. Use disk-management to remove all partitions on it and then format it and you'll have all the 32GB back.

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Hey guys, So I recently decided to try to install linux on one of my computers. I formatted my 32GB drive with a program called Win32DiskImager, and now it shows up as only being 4MB in size. Anyone have any things I could try? or did I brick my drive? I've tried to format it with the windows formatting option but it didn't seem to do anything. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

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1 minute ago, Nekotronics said:

Hey guys, So I recently decided to try to install linux on one of my computers. I formatted my 32GB drive with a program called Win32DiskImager, and now it shows up as only being 4MB in size. Anyone have any things I could try? or did I brick my drive? I've tried to format it with the windows formatting option but it didn't seem to do anything. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!

No, you didn't. You just created a 4GB partition on it. Use disk-management to remove all partitions on it and then format it and you'll have all the 32GB back.

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1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

No, you didn't. You just created a 4GB partition on it. Use disk-management to remove all partitions on it and then format it and you'll have all the 32GB back.

Oh thank god. Didn't think of that.

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