USB stick has 3 partitions, cant merge

ShiWarrior

ShiWarrior

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i have a USB stick that i cant seem to put right again

this is how it looks in the disk management software


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tried deleting volumes, creating volumes, the middle 3Mb one , i cant even delete or anything

any ideas ?
 
Would help if you said why you can't delete them, like do you get any error message or maybe something in the event log. :) Either way you could give the portable version of DiskGenius a go.
 
As EsaT says - use diskpart to clean it.

Be extra careful, if you don't know what you're doing you could wipe something you need the data on.
 
Thanks
I'll have a look later

There's no data on them at all / don't need anything off it

As for why I can't delete them, it's all greyed out , can't select anything, the only thing I can do is delete the partition and create another, but I can't merge them so it's still in 3 parts
 
Undesirable said:
He means data on other drives, because command line applications aren't quite as intuitive as ones with a GUI.
Click to expand...

Yes, absolutely.

I've seen people at work accidentally nuke a hard drive by mistake using diskpart, when they meant to wipe a misbehaving USB flash drive...
 
i think its obvious which drive i want ?

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.964]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.964

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-DO881I4

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1863 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 4 Online 14 GB 14 GB

DISKPART>

Disk 4, hopefully if i do disk 4 it wont touch Disk 0 !! ?
 
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