Unmountable unallocated space...

[German_John]

Hey folks,

 

so... I have this USB drive that I used to install ArchAnywhere a week ago. Now I noticed it was only 64MB (although it's 32GB...). Formating doesn't work in Windows, Ease US worked... somewhat. 

Now, look at my screenshot.

Those 7.88MB - can't extend the other partition to it, can't do anything with it - it's not mountable. And that prevents the entire drive from being mounted now. 

What can I do about that? 

 

Cheers,

John

[manikyath]

presuming you're doing this on english windows 10...

 

open your start menu, type "disk", and click "create and format hard disk partitions", it will open disk management (strangely enough searching for disk management doesnt give you this result...).

 

then find the usb drive in the list, remove the partitions on it (this'll remove all the data on it, be warned), and add a new partition.

[German_John]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

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Nope. Just tells me "system can't find the file specified"... 

 

I also have a Kubuntu machine, but that doesn't seem to want this thing either... is it possible that the Arch installation did... well, something? Wouldn't have the slightest idea what, but...

 

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, German_John said:

Just tells me "system can't find the file specified"... 

.. uh.. what tells you that?

 

EDIT: you can also just use the kubuntu machine, install Gparted on it, and use that to restore the usb drive to what it should be.

[German_John]

5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

.. uh.. what tells you that?

Windows Disk Management. When I try formatting/erasing the 7.88MB partition or assigning a drive letter to the drive, that's the error that pops up

 

EDIT: I'll try with Gparted next, maybe that'll work

[German_John]

Well, this is weird. With gparted I was able to get rid of that thing - but it still wouldn't show up as a normal drive in Windows. However, it seems to work just fine in Linux... there's a folder labeled "lost&found" that's inaccesible.

Right now, I'm installing Ubuntu on it (which is what I wanted to use it for in the first place) and either that'll sort it out or I'll try again later... or it'll just keep on being my Live USB.

 

Thanks though!