Usb has partitioned itself..

savagesam117 · 12 May 2015 at 22:14

I went to use my USB today and it has decided to partition itself, thought i'd format it, still being annoying. I have had a google and tried something in Command Prompt but It didn't work.

It's Disk 2.

Help please?

ED209 · 12 May 2015 at 22:35

are you able to delete the other 2 partitions? can see most of the space s sitting unallocated.

delete the new volume and the 99mb volume partitions and then you should see it appearing as one unallocated space, create a new partition and should be good

savagesam117 · 12 May 2015 at 22:42

I've tried to delete the new volume, allocate the big bit, format to FAT and NTFS. Still no nothing. I thought it was going to be as easy as that too!

ED209 · 12 May 2015 at 23:05

have you tried using diskpart from command prompt?

savagesam117 · 12 May 2015 at 23:07

This is what i tried but i couldn't get it to work..
Mind running me through the steps?

spoffle · 12 May 2015 at 23:11

Universal Serial Busses don't have partitions.

savagesam117 · 12 May 2015 at 23:13

Well that said it did? I've sorted it now. A quick google and got that diskpart thing working.

ED209 · 12 May 2015 at 23:14

open up command prompt and type disk part

after type list disk and make a note of which one is the USB stick

then type select disk 1 (or what ever the USB is numbered)

once selected type clean

this should remove all partitions and give you one unallocated space for the USB stick, close down and create a simple volume through disk management

just tested on my USB stick here and worked

savagesam117 · 12 May 2015 at 23:18

Thanks, got it working

ED209 · 12 May 2015 at 23:19

glad you got it working

spoffle · 12 May 2015 at 23:45

savagesam117 said:
Well that said it did? I've sorted it now. A quick google and got that diskpart thing working.

I'm being facetious

USB drives have partitions.