I have a flash USB drive 128 meg. It's partitioned so I can only see 50 megs of it when I open it with windows 2000. Anyone know of any tools I could use to remove the other partitions and make it one big drive again? I don't think I can get to it from DOS, but I can't even find fdisk on windows 2000.
Thanks
Steve
What did you use to partition it in the first place?
Try using that to bring the different partitions back together again.
I am not much in the know about partions on USB drives but i would think that it would work similar to a hard disk.
Did you partition it or did Windows say that the drive is only 50MB when you know that it is 128MB? I sometimes use my USB flash disk on the old Windows 2000 PCs at my college and have problems. I think Windows 2000 was one of those 'trouble' OSs when it comes to USB, no idea why though
A linux install script took over the drive, partitioned it and filled it with data. I'm not a linux person and I can't figure out the right commands to reverse it...
Thanks.
I finally managed to figure out that in order to use fdisk in Linux that I needed to be logged in as an administrator. Couldn't figure out how to switch users, but did figure out how to add "sudo" in front of the "fdisk /dev/sda" command to give me temporary root privilidges. I was then able to blow away the extra partitions and resize the main one back to 128 Megs.
Okay to close this thread.
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