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Windows 7 - How Can I Re-Format A Memory Stick?
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| 01-23-2012 | #1 |
| | How Can I Re-Format A Memory Stick? I installed and formatted a Maxell 32 GB USB memory stick in my Dell computer which has a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit operating system. Saved many photos on it, and then removed it. Today I re-inserted it, and the computer wouldn't read it: it advised I must format the stick before it could be used. Knowing full well I was about to wipe the thing clean, I did a "Format" operation, and it is now re-formatted to 1 MB. Any ideas about how I can restore the thing to 32 GB capacity? |
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| 01-23-2012 | #2 |
| | SD Card Formatter should do it. Just used it myself. Download link is on the left side of the page. |
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| 01-23-2012 | #3 |
| Vista and Windows7, sometimes Ubuntu and Fedora | For storing data, I would format it to Fat32, not NTFS. |
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| 01-23-2012 | #4 |
| | No Joy I previously formatted the stick to FAT32. Downloaded, installed, and ran the SD Card Formatter. The stick is still set to 1 MB. Thank you both for trying to help! |
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| 01-23-2012 | #5 |
| Vista and Windows7, sometimes Ubuntu and Fedora | Post a picturre of Disk Management where your stick shows. That may help us to better understand what is going on. |
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| 01-23-2012 | #6 |
| | How Can I Re-Format Stick Memory The stick memory (officially, I suppose it's a USB flash memory card) is the F Drive on the attached screen shot. |
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| 01-23-2012 | #7 |
| | Don't know why that program didn't work. I used it fives minutes before posting about it & it got my stick back to normal. Anyway see how this goes. You could use the 'clean all' option. That should get it back to new. Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command |
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| 01-23-2012 | #8 |
| | Did you trying going into computer, left clicking the card, hitting format in the pop-up menu, then hitting the 'Restore Device Defaults' button? |
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| 01-23-2012 | #9 |
| Vista and Windows7, sometimes Ubuntu and Fedora | 
Quote: Originally Posted by ColMac  The stick memory (officially, I suppose it's a USB flash memory card) is the F Drive on the attached screen shot. |
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| 01-24-2012 | #10 |
| | How Can I Re-Format. . . First of all, thanks to all of you for your advice and suggestions. I believe I have a hardware failure. In addition to trying to follow your advisories, I have downloaded, installed, and launched tools available online at: http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html and also at: http://www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/ Although Windows recognizes the drive, the HP tool does not. The flash memory tool kit re-formats it to 1 MB (again). So I give up, and will return the drive to the retailer, hoping for a credit or exchange. Again, thanks for trying to help. |
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