Doing this is easy if you’re one of those few power users or geeky earthlings who knows the way to almost anything PC related.īut what if you’re part of the large number of average users out there? What will you do to fix your machine by yourself? That’s exactly what we’re going to find out here but before anything else, be sure to create a bootable Windows 10 USB installation media. It’s very quick and easy to fix misconfigured Flash Drives, but please remember to be careful as you don’t want to damage a critical partition, such as the one on which you store files and documents.įor in-depth Windows 10 Troubleshooting advice, Mike Halsey’s book “ Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Second Edition” is on sale now from Apress, Amazon, and all good booksellers.When the worst happens on our Windows 10 laptops or PCs, the last resort that is available is a reformat process. With the formatting complete, you will find that you now have a USB Flash Drive with the correct available capacity filling the whole drive. You may want to give the drive a name though, or choose the formatting type NTFS for PC only use, or ExFAT to maintain compatibility with Apple Mac computers, and other non-Windows devices. A wizard will open that you can mostly just click through. Right click again on it and from the menu that appears select New Simple Volume. You now have a black, unformatted disk in the correct size.
Again, be VERY careful not to delete the wrong partition, or one on another disk as all the data will be wiped. Right-click on the displayed partition on the Flash Drive and from the menu that appears click Delete Volume. This opens the Disk Management console, and you will see all of your disks, including your inserted USB Flash Drive. Search in the Start Menu for disk management and from the search results, click Create and format hard disk partitions. Note however this process will wipe all your files and data off the drive, so you should make a back up copy first. Fortunately this is quick and easy to fix. This normally happens because the Flash Drive has been formatted by a tool such as the Windows 10 Installer, that only formats drives to a specific maximum size. For example you might have a 128GB Flash Drive that only has 16GB showing as its available size.
Sometimes you might find that you have a USB Flash Drive that’s the wrong size.
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