How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 8GB size back?
Problem
My USB drive used to be originally 8GB when I bought it. I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting . But the capacity only shows 250MB. Is there something I can do to get the original size back? Maybe it got partitioned in a weird way? The flash drive is a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB. I got it from Wal-Mart but this is the same drive. http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Micro-Flash-SDCZ6-8192-A11/dp/B000UZN2ZK
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Fix for: How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 8GB size back?
The command line procedure is not simple, but it is the most likely thing to work. When re-formatting the "drive" you're actually only formatting a partition on the drive. You need to use the diskpart utility to remove the partitions and create 1 single partition covering the full volume. can be a bit dangerous, because if you pick the wrong disk or partition, you can remove data or partitions that are extremely, EXTREMELY important and lose all data on your machine. Proceed with extreme cautio…
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