Unwanted Partition

[mikeb]

I recently created a ‘bootable’ USB flash Drive using the HP formatter tool. The drive in question was a 16gb ‘Cruzer’.

Now I find that the drive has been partitioned to 4gb and 12gb and no matter what I do I cannot remove the partition and the 12gb part is shown as ‘raw’.

I have used XP & Win7 to cure the problem and although the Raw section shows up under Disk Management all options regarding the partition are ‘greyed out’.

The HP tool doesn’t help.

Stumped ::

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

[Deleted]

See if you can allocate a drive letter to it in disk man.

If you can then you can format it and do as you please.

[mikeb]

Nope - no can do .....
I have C, D, (Main partitioned HDD) E (C/DVD) and the sticky thing .... F (4gb) and 'Unallocated' 12gb.

[mikeb]

Sorted - I booted to Ubuntu and used the disk manager within.
Useful little programme.