Re: How do you format in Fat32?

Hi, I have a major problem here.. My pendrive is accidentally formatted
to FAT. Initially it has 4GB but now it displays that it has only 2MB!
Its really frustrating for me because I've tried everything that's said
here including cmd and countless other softwares but the same message
pops up: everytime I try to format it, it says "the volume is too small
for fat32". But my pendrive has 4GB, and suddenly it now becomes 2MB
only! How do I get back my original memory space?

Please help.. I'm out of ideas.


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ianbong wrote:
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> Hi, I have a major problem here.. My pendrive is accidentally formatted
> to FAT. Initially it has 4GB but now it displays that it has only 2MB!
> Its really frustrating for me because I've tried everything that's said
> here including cmd and countless other softwares but the same message
> pops up: everytime I try to format it, it says "the volume is too small
> for fat32". But my pendrive has 4GB, and suddenly it now becomes 2MB
> only! How do I get back my original memory space?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I'm not sure how a drive can accidentally become formatted, but you can
format it from third-party software like Acronis Disk Director or boot with
a Linux Live CD like Knoppix and use gparted to format it to FAT32.

Malke
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Hi, Ianbong.

As Malke said, or...use the utility intended for just this purpose: Disk
Management. (diskmgmt.msc)
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As she used to say in the old sitcom, "That does not compute!" :>(

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> Hi, I have a major problem here.. My pendrive is accidentally formatted
> to FAT. Initially it has 4GB but now it displays that it has only 2MB!
> Its really frustrating for me because I've tried everything that's said
> here including cmd and countless other softwares but the same message
> pops up: everytime I try to format it, it says "the volume is too small
> for fat32". But my pendrive has 4GB, and suddenly it now becomes 2MB
> only! How do I get back my original memory space?
>
> Please help.. I'm out of ideas.
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