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Deleted everything fromn my USB flash Drive

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Hang_Glider - Nov 27, 2010 at 11:08 AM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Dec 6, 2010 at 04:03 PM
Hi
Baught a 32 gb flash drive $122, although it was 32gb I could not put any file larger than 4 gb at a time, so I got a program to partition it, that did not fix it, so I deleted EVERYTHING, now my computer dosent recodnise my USB, the Drivers are fine because it recodnisers my 4 gb and 2 gb flash drives. Please HELP my 32 gb flash drive is useless now, What can I do ?

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imateski Posts 9 Registration date Sunday December 5, 2010 Status Member Last seen December 6, 2010 1
Dec 6, 2010 at 01:58 PM
Right-click the My Computer icon, and locate Disk Management. There, delete that newly created 4GB partition and with right-click create a new Extended partition and format it in NTFS as a 32 GB partition. Chances are your stick was using a FAT32 partition that doesnt allow for larger files than 4GB (I think). The down side of the NTFS partition is that you wont be able to use your stick with MACs (unless they've smartened up and support NTFS nowadays).
Hope this helps.

Igor Mateski
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,826
Dec 6, 2010 at 04:03 PM
A drive formatted with FAT32 will only allow a max file of 4GB. You will need to format the drive with NTFS to write larger files.

Good Luck
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