what the HELL happened to my usb???

[DietzDiet]

Alr listen im not rlly used to installing windows and crap onto a usb and i tried to do that tdy with my 64gb cruzer blade usb and i changed my mind and i wanna install linux on it but when i checked it it says it only has 32 GIGABYTES of space on it max and its name and logo changed?? did i break it or smth
edit: rufus says it has 64 gigs

 

[manikyath]

it's because windows doesnt want to make a FAT32 partition bigger than 32GB, so it's only formatted half of the USB drive.

 

honestly it's a pain in the butt to fix on windows, because disk manager doesnt always want to remove the partition off a usb drive.

[DietzDiet]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it's because windows doesnt want to make a FAT32 partition bigger than 32GB, so it's only formatted half of the USB drive.

 

honestly it's a pain in the butt to fix on windows, because disk manager doesnt always want to remove the partition off a usb drive.

any way i can fix this?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, DietzDiet said:

any way i can fix this?

worth a go trough disk manager in windows, i dont have 64GB usb drives laying around to test with, so i cant really test for you.

[JogerJ]

just go to disk management, delete the partition and create a new one with correct format. Otherwise if you still want to install a linux distro just format with Rufus as usual

[DietzDiet]

21 minutes ago, JogerJ said:

just go to disk management, delete the partition and create a new one with correct format. Otherwise if you still want to install a linux distro just format with Rufus as usual

do i click format?

[Mark Kaine]

i use guiformat. it can make 64GB fat32 partitions on windows no problem. 

 

(very old software not sure if its still available) 

[DietzDiet]

13 hours ago, manikyath said:

worth a go trough disk manager in windows, i dont have 64GB usb drives laying around to test with, so i cant really test for you.

like this?

[manikyath]

25 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

like this?

this:

 

then you'll see that the 64GB usb drive only has half of it allocated to a partition, and either expand the partition or delete and re-add.

[DietzDiet]

4 hours ago, manikyath said:

this:

 

then you'll see that the 64GB usb drive only has half of it allocated to a partition, and either expand the partition or delete and re-add.

from here what do  i do

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

from here what do  i do

ESD-USB i assume, down below you'll see it has a 32GB partition, but it should have a 32GB unallocated space behind it. delete the partition, and add a new one.

 

but as i said before, windows doesnt like to do that for a lot of USB  drives.

[DietzDiet]

33 minutes ago, manikyath said:

ESD-USB i assume, down below you'll see it has a 32GB partition, but it should have a 32GB unallocated space behind it. delete the partition, and add a new one.

 

but as i said before, windows doesnt like to do that for a lot of USB  drives.

Im pretty stupid at instrunctions so sorry lol but do i just click delete volume?