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Reusing a USB Boot Drive - Format back to factory state?

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Mar 15, 202613607 views
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I am trying to reuse a USB boot drive (Mac) for regular file storage on Windows ... when Windows detects it, it won't let me reformat to anything greater than a 40 MB or so - and this is an 8 GB drive... How do you format the drive back to its original factory state?

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You did not provide any information about which version of Windows you are using or about what sort of partitioning this USB drive is using. If you are using Windows 7 then perhaps it cannot delete the partitions because your USB drive was GPT forma…

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