How to Restore USB Drive or SD Card Back to Full Capacity in Windows - ilya-khadykin/notes-outdated GitHub Wiki

Problem

Sometimes file system on USB drive get corrupted and when you try to format it Windows don't let you format to full capacity. To do that we will use diskaprt.exe utility in Windows

Solution

  1. Start diskpart utility by pressing 'Win+R' and typingdiskpart
  2. List available disks:
    When diskpart utility starts type list disk
  3. Select disk to work with:
    select disk 1
  4. Select the first partition: select partition 1
  5. Delete selected partition: delete partition
  6. Create primary partition: create partition primary
  7. If command 6 fails due to disk being not empty try to clean it: clean
  8. Repeat command 6 again: create partition primary

After these step you should be able to format your USB Drive or SD Card to its full capacity

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