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Hello,
i have recently bought kingesten 4 GB flash and it has a utility to partition it and i made to 2G accessable partition and 2GB password protected. then accidently i delete a file which contains the protected partition information. then to day i tried to format it and i can only format the unprotected 2 GB and i can not access the other 2GB and even when i see the property of the flash it is showing the total size of my flash is 2 GB . so can u pleash help me what to do in order to have my full 4Gb free space
thanks

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surath, on Apr 8, 2009 8:26:19 am BST

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Hello,

i have recently bought kingesten 4 GB flash and it has a utility to partition it and i made to 2G accessable partition and 2GB password protected. then accidently i delete a file which contains the protected partition information. then to day i tried to format it and i can only format the unprotected 2 GB and i can not access the other 2GB and even when i see the property of the flash it is showing the total size of my flash is 2 GB . so can u pleash help me what to do in order to have my full 4Gb free space
thanks

surath

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HITMAN47, on Jul 21, 2009 3:16:09 am BST

Dont worry bro hitman is here why to fear,just download a tool called partition table editor 32(PTEDIT32.EXE) open it ,in harddisk click dropdown list and select drive 2 ie ur pendrive and type the following values in 1 line 0B,00,0,1,1,487,254,63,7847873 be sure set remaining lines to zeros and click save changes button,just remove ur pen drive and reconnect it format it from explorer

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FlyBoy737, on Aug 31, 2009 12:24:44 am BST

HITMAN ur the best thanks alot , i was doing about 4 hrs googling

i was trying convert my 4G kingston to NTFS to speed up my vista but i mess it up

now cz of u everything back to normal :)

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IT Man, on Sep 16, 2009 6:17:37 am BST

Hi Hitman,

I need some help.

I've got a Kingston DT101 4GB. After playing around with encryption software The stick only shows a capacity of 4MB. Disk management also shows 4MB only. Kingston send me a tool from HDDGURU to perform a low level format. The tool cannot run because it is smaller than 65535 sectors. I tried your tip with PEDIT, but seem to be missing a number.

Appreciate any help.

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RobbyRobAZ, on Sep 28, 2009 12:28:23 am BST

OH NO! I changed the values on the wrong drive, my main laptop drive and it won't boot! Do you know any way to fix it easily? The laptop hard drive had 2 partitions and a lot of important info!

Thanks.

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wiling, on Oct 12, 2009 1:13:56 am BST

Pls help me .after i user the PTEDIT32.EXE now my hard disk also can format aldy .
they also become 0MB....pls help my to slove...pls

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JalB, on Oct 26, 2009 3:22:05 am GMT

Hi hitman, i'm using windows 7, and have same problem with kingston, 4gb to 4mb, but the ptedit only detect my two hard disk drives and no my usb, what could be te problem?

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HITMAN47, on Jul 21, 2009 3:23:40 am BST

You can download from powerquest

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Anish, Kerala, India, on Sep 10, 2009 11:22:02 pm BST

Hai Hitman

Many many thanks for the realy useful reply the issue.
I spent hours to find a solution for this issue in Google.

At last, luckly entered here.

Great Help ! Realy Great.

I used my 4 GB Kingstone drive to setup my Home Network.
XP Setup formated and copied network files to this drive.

After all, I found my 4 GB Kingstone have only 2 GB capacity.

Now, it recovered and my 4 GB is back.

Thanks & Regards
Anish, Kerala, India

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JAVIER, on Sep 18, 2009 6:29:42 pm BST

Could you please explain me ""step by step"" what you did for recovering your 4 GB USB flash memory. I have exactly the same problem that you had when trying to low format my USB drive: "this device cannot accessed because it is smaller than 65535 sectors" I would appreciate very much an answer for help.

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khalid shami, on Oct 14, 2009 3:30:35 pm BST

Dear bro
we stuck the same problem my 2GB flash drive now showing 200MB. Kindly solve my problem.

Looking forward.

Bye

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hoier, on Sep 25, 2009 1:36:12 pm BST

My camera uses FAT files, but format only up to to 2 GB and I have a 8GB card so I thought I try om\n my PC, which formatted it FAT32 which is unreadable on the older camera However the PC does format (FAT32 format that is to just under 8 GB)

So how do i format a compact flash for fat format in vista 32 with the only apatarant option is fat32

By the way partition table editor 32(PTEDIT32.EXE) apparently is unavailable on the net

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///M, on Sep 28, 2009 2:43:55 am BST

Get it here:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/PTEDIT32.zip

I need some help.. i have a DT101.. i know that i cant use this:
0B,00,0,1,1,487,254,63,7847873

for my 8GB drive. But i did.. and now it doesnt want to format... any word?

Thanks

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Jasimog, on Nov 7, 2009 8:18:58 pm GMT

Great thread, really helped me with a 4GB flash drive (not Kingston) that would only format to 200Mb in Windows. For info, it appears that you must run PTEDIT in Compatibility Mode when using Windows 7 (I have 64-bit), but setting the compatibility option to 'Windows XP SP3' works fine.

MOST IMPORTANT - the string from Hitman above is missing a digit! It should read:

0B,00,0,1,1,487,254,63,0,7847873
and then all other lines to zero.

This really works! I can't believe this is the only thread I've found where this nightmare scenario is discussed!

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