{"id":123,"date":"2011-09-10T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunauskas.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:23:49","slug":"how-to-fix-usb-flash-disk-after-playing-with-partitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunauskas.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-usb-flash-disk-after-playing-with-partitions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix USB flash disk after playing with partitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once I tried Google Chrome OS build from Hexxeh just to try if the new OS works. I can say that it works. Works not fully but internet browsing with Chrome goes pretty well. I used USB drive image from website (2 GB) and with the help of DiskImager<\/a> I made a bootable flash disk. I started my laptop from flash key and it was safe and smooth test.<\/p>\n

Today I wanted to use that USB key to transfer some information from one device to another. I formatted the key, because I wanted to delete all data in it. I was surprised when after the formatting the size of USB stick dropped from 8 GB to 1 GB. I checked what shows Disk management\u00a0 (Control panel – Administrative Tools – Computer management). I saw several partitions: raw, unallocated and others.<\/p>\n

So the problems was clear: Chrome OS USB image created specific partitions to his own good. And now I was not unable to do anything with them: format was not allowed and deleting partitions was also impossible.<\/p>\n

Helpfully GIYF (Google is your friend) and I found quick and simple solution. Instructions web page is little outdated, but I wanted to share one cool app which maybe will help me in the future again. This piece of software restores your USB key to it’s original state<\/a> (not in English).<\/p>\n

I hope it will help you to fix yours USB drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once I tried Google Chrome OS build from Hexxeh just to try if the new OS works. I can say that it works. Works not fully but internet browsing with Chrome goes pretty well. I used USB drive image from website (2 GB) and with the help of DiskImager I made a bootable flash disk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,47,49],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flash","tag-usb","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t