Hey guys.
Today I used the Windows 10 tool thing to use my 128GB USB stick as a boot drive for a clean install. All done with that now. Now I've formatted the USB stick and it says the USB stick has 31.9GB of space, and is called ESD-USB.
How do I fix this?
Thanks.
-DreadAlert
that is because it was formatted as Fat32
change format to NTFS
Should I re-format it with NTFS? or exFAT? I know nothing about this haha. What do I do to get it back to 128GB?
from disk management
select that 32 GB partition and delete it
then select the unallocated space and create new NTFS partition
the windows create media tool created the 32gb partition and formatted it fat32
you have to delete that 32gb partition first
could also use Diskpart
from cmd prompt (admin)
Type> diskpart
type> select disk 2
type> clean
I used a 64GB USB Thumb/Flash drive to create the boot drive and it formatted a 32GB FAT32 partition in the process. Looking in Disk Management showed only the 32GB partition and all choices to work with the remaining 31.x space were grayed out. After my 32GB drives arrived I created a new one them booted to a GPARTED LiveCD to delete the partition from the 64GB drive then repartition it as FAT32. Windows has problems creating FAT32 partitions above 32GB. I got a 64GB MicroSDXC memory stick for my Win8.1 tablet Upgraded to Win10 and it came formatted as exFAT, seems to be fine.
This is for Win7 but seems valid for Win10:
Convert a hard disk or partition to FAT32 format - Windows Help
Another take on it:
Format FAT32 drives beyond 32GB limit - TechRepublic
Fixed, had to use diskpart via cmd to delete the partition made by the Windows 10 install tool. Formatted into one space again.
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