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Reposted because nobody answered lol

 

I have a 128gb flash drive that I've used for general purpose use for a few years now and needed it as a windows install drive for a new build. After I was done I wanted to use it as a normal drive again, but the windows install software made it so that the drive only has one 32gb partition available for use. Device Manager was no help here- the rest of the storage shows as unallocated with no option to partition it. Formatting the entire drive doesn't help, as the only option is to format it as a 32gb drive. What do I do about this?

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Use disk manager.

 

Also, do you agree with me that "flash drive" would be THE BEST superhero name? Imagine...

nanananananananananananananananananananananNANANANA FLASH DRIVE!

 

Since I am to lazy to put something interesting here, I will put everything, but slightly abbreviated. Here is everything:

 

42

 

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also,

 

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1 minute ago, King_of_Oz said:

Use disk manager.

 

Also, do you agree with me that "flash drive" would be THE BEST superhero name? Imagine...

nanananananananananananananananananananananNANANANA FLASH DRIVE!

My problem is disk manager lmao. It shows the flash drive as 128gb but the rest is allocated with no option to partition.

 

you are absolutely correct about the superhero name lol

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1 minute ago, harrisonjr98 said:

My problem is disk manager lmao. It shows the flash drive as 128gb but the rest is allocated with no option to partition.

 

you are absolutely correct about the superhero name lol

Then I'm not sure.

 

Since I am to lazy to put something interesting here, I will put everything, but slightly abbreviated. Here is everything:

 

42

 

also, some questions to make you wonder about life:

 

What is I and who is me? Who is you? Which armrest in the movie theatre is yours?

 

also,

 

Welcome to the internet, I will be your guide. Or something.

 

 

My build:

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor,

 Motherboard: ASRock B250M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard, 

Memory: Corsair 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory,

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive, 

Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card, 

Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case , 

Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply, 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full, 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N USB 2.0 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter, Case Fan: Corsair Air Series White 2 pack 52.2 CFM  120mm Fan

 

ou do not ask why, you ask why not -me

 

Remeber kinds, the only differ between screwing around and scince is writing it down. -Adam Savage.

 

Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not even sure of the former. - Albert Einstein.

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4 minutes ago, harrisonjr98 said:

My problem is disk manager lmao. It shows the flash drive as 128gb but the rest is allocated with no option to partition.

 

you are absolutely correct about the superhero name lol

In a cmd prompt -

 

type

>diskpart

>list disk

>select disk _(drive number from above command)

>clean

 

 

then go into disk manager and format as usual. 

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2 hours ago, harrisonjr98 said:

Reposted because nobody answered lol

 

I have a 128gb flash drive that I've used for general purpose use for a few years now and needed it as a windows install drive for a new build. After I was done I wanted to use it as a normal drive again, but the windows install software made it so that the drive only has one 32gb partition available for use. Device Manager was no help here- the rest of the storage shows as unallocated with no option to partition it. Formatting the entire drive doesn't help, as the only option is to format it as a 32gb drive. What do I do about this?

http://geekswithblogs.net/ilich/archive/2013/04/26/recovering-unallocated-space-of-a-usb-flash-drive.aspx

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