USB key showing only a few MB
by techie.g33k on May.15, 2016, under Techie
If you are like I was and find that your ##GB USB key is only showing 2MB or 3MB and needs to be formatted, you might need to “clean” it. These directions are for a Windows computer:
Open an Administrative Command Prompt:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 408 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 7509 MB 6619 MBDISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
DISKPART> exit
You will then need to Format the USB key like usual.
