How do I reformat the 64GB USB stick used by media creation tool ?

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    W10 Pro x64/W7 Ultimate x64 dual boot main - W11 Triple Boot Pending
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    Flash drives are a different animal to work with entirely. SSDs are much closer to that form of static memory over mechanical drive while retaining the standard partitioning options. Flash drives, SD cards, and other removable media simply don't have that.

    As for partitioning and repartitioning drives the DM itself has always been a bit limited with the idea there mainly as an option available for secondary drives to simply see either a new volume go onto a raw drive or wipe a drive clean. Supposedly since 7 the resize option was to be included but never fully realized. Either the Drive tools on the Windows media or a 3rd party program like MiniTools is often what you end up with.

    Here for booted live ops I will usually go with GParted live cd or booted live from a distro when repartitioning for any OS changes. The non MS alternative there works on most every OS since you can see Fat 32 and NTFS volumes as well as for the Linux VFat Ext2-5 type depending on the release and how old it is.
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    Windows 10 Home ver 21H2, Build 19044.1889
       #22

    Nice article here
    How to Format USB Drives Larger Than 32GB With FAT32 on Windows

    that points to a great little utility here:
    GUI version of FAT32 Format
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    Win10 Version 22H2 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home
       #23

    Tried it once, Win10 wiped it and formatted as FAT32 and 4GB, had to use GPARTED to wipe and reformat back to factory as FAT32 and 64GB.
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    Windows 10 Home ver 21H2, Build 19044.1889
       #24

    Berton said:
    Tried it once, Win10 wiped it and formatted as FAT32 and 4GB, had to use GPARTED to wipe and reformat back to factory as FAT32 and 64GB.
    Yeah, I retract that post. The utility didn't work for me, either. Not sure exactly what you mean by "and 4GB". ?

    I have a 64GB USB flash drive which the utility formatted as 32GB. I will have to go back through this thread and follow the instructions to properly reformat it as 64GB.
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    Win10 Version 22H2 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home
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    mangorunner said:
    Yeah, I retract that post. The utility didn't work for me, either. Not sure exactly what you mean by "and 4GB". ?

    I have a 64GB USB flash drive which the utility formatted as 32GB. I will have to go back through this thread and follow the instructions to properly reformat it as 64GB.
    The "4GB" was the size of the FAT32 partition that was automatically created.
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  6. Posts : 7,606
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
       #26

    My 50-GB FAT32 partition created on Windows 10.

    How do I reformat the 64GB USB stick used by media creation tool ?-50-gb-fat32.jpg
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    Windows 10 Home ver 21H2, Build 19044.1889
       #27

    Matthew Wai said:
    My 50-GB FAT32 partition created on Windows 10.

    How do I reformat the 64GB USB stick used by media creation tool ?-50-gb-fat32.jpg
    Hi, Matt, Did you format the USB via Disk Management or via File Explorer > Format?
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    Win 10 Pro 64-bit v1909 - Build 18363 Custom ISO Install
       #28

    mangorunner said:
    Did you format the USB via Disk Management or via File Explorer > Format?

    He possibly used Diskpart.
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  9. Posts : 7,606
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
       #29

    You guessed wrong.
    Make another guess.
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  10. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #30

    You can do it with MiniTool Partition Wizard or other third party programs.
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