But if Reflect has to create a suitable partition on its own because there isn't a suitable one already there, then yes it will only create a 1GB partition.
If Reflect finds an existing suitable partition (FAT32 only if you have "Enable multi-boot" selected, FAT32 or NTFS otherwise), then it will just use the existing partition, in which case you wouldn't have this issue. Select disk X (replace X with the number of the disk you want to mark as empty, as determined by the output of "list disk" above)Ĭlean (if this fails the first time around, try simplyrunning it again)įrom there you can either continue using Diskpart to create your desired partition(s) and format them, or you can just open Disk Management and accomplish those tasks using its graphical interface.Īdding to the above, you may not have as many 16GB flash drives that are 1GB as you think. If you want to mark a disk as completely empty, launch Command Prompt and enter the following: I suspect I've got a bunch of 16GB USB drives that I use for Reflect Boot Media that are now 1GB drives! But I still would like to be able to clear all the partitions on the drive and get back to one partition of 119GB. Now I can use the same drive for the Reflect Media Rescue and storage using only one USB connector on the MB. Not a bad situation since I'm using the USB drive on a Miner for miscellaneous storage. Windows using Disk Management will then let me create a 118GB NTFS partition with the unused space. I'm sure I'm not the first person to fall into this situation?Ī little more information - it appears Reflect sees the mystery/corrupt USB and will create a 1GB backup partition on it. I've tried using Windows Disk Management but it cannot figure out what to do!! Help would be greatly appreciated. If it wasn't an "expensive" USB stick I'd throw it away and call it a bad day but I sure would like to get it back to a 128GB - 119GB usable, exFat and 128 Allocation Size. I take that back, the second time I insert the USB Windows does not see it correctly. Windows sees the drive but will not format it.
I then told W10 to delete the partition and I tried to reformat the drive. It formatted the drive and defined a FAT partition far less than the 128GB. I let reflect format a 128GB USB 3.1 stick for Rescue Media.
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