I have an 8GB Sandisk Cruzer. I always use the "safely remove hardware" function so I don't know how this could happen. I plugged in my usb stick to another computer and it said it was corrupted. I formatted it regardless because the files on there I already had back-ups of. The thing is, I had the USB stick partitioned into 2 drives. One of them 5GB, the other 3GB. Only the 5GB partition is showing in the list of drives in My Computer. I would like to fix it so that the usb stick is the whole 8GB again. Any help?
You can use diskpart to wipe the drive out and create a new 8GB partition. While flash drives can support multiple partitions, they are not designed for it. It is likely that the corruption was due to the partitions.
plug the drive in and do the following 1. right click on my computer 2. select manage 3. select disk management under storage 4. select the drive 5. if you right click on the drive itll give you options youll probally have to delete the partitions and then reformat it to give you one big partition
I can format the working partition just fine, but the 2nd partition (which is appearing blank in the list) does not let me do anything. It says "the operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled" and says to restart the computer to enable it. I've done so multiple times and still hasn't worked. I took a snapshot of my screen. Any help?
i believe you have to delete both partitions first then the whole drive will be unallocated space then you can format it as one drive
As the above poster said, yes you should delete both partitions. Have you tried right clicking the extra partition and clicking "Initialize" or something to that effect?
Goto the run dialogue and type in "CMD" type "diskpart" type "list disk" type "select disk x" - where x is the disk number of the flash drive type "clean" type "create partition primary" type "select partition 1" type "active" type "format fs=fat32" or "format fs=ntfs" type "assign" type "exit" twice
