USB Flash partitioning

A while ago I was messing around with installing Windows XP from a USB stick. I couldn't get it to work and ended up using a CD as I had previously. I haven't touched the USB stick since.
Now that I needed to use it again for something different I notice there's only 2 gb visible on it. It's an 8 gb stick and all 8 gb where available before I started messing with this bootable USB. Clearly I have done something that somehow partitioned it in a way. What can I do to un-do this?

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Shauni April 08 2012 23:02. Posts 3832

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reformat it?

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CrazedNight United States. April 08 2012 23:37. Posts 63

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Copy any files you have in it that you need onto some other folder. Then format the flash drive. That's the only thing I can think of.

Corr Denmark. April 08 2012 23:59. Posts 529

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Formatting did nothing. This was on Windows XP which has no option of deleting the partitions. I ended up finding a utility called BOOTICE that luckily could restore it to its original state.

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nalgene Canada. April 09 2012 02:55. Posts 2145

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You can try this

Open the Start Menu, cmd, and right click administrator
Type list disk, press Enter
Type select disk X (where X is the number your USB drive shows up as), press Enter
Type clean, press Enter
Type create partition primary, press Enter
Type active, press Enter
Type format quick fs=fat32, press Enter
Type assign, press Enter
Type exit, press Enter
Copy everything from the Windows XP installation DVD onto the USB key

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