alankearn 10 #1 Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) I have just unsuccessfully tried using two Kingston 8GB flash drives to install 64 bit and then 32 bit a copy of the Cloudready operating system onto to an old Samsung NC10 laptop. The problem I hit is that it was installing the USA version of the keyboard and not showing a method of swiching to the UK version. After I gave up trying to install the OS I formatted both flash drives to clean them out (and there is nothing showing in them) but instead of getting the 8GB back they both show a capacity of only 63.8MB and this only what they will accept. Anyone know how to get the 8GB back. Thanks Edited September 8, 2019 by alankearn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat 10 #2 Posted September 8, 2019 I’m no expert but it sounds like in all the shenanigans, you have somehow altered the partitions on your USB stick which has left the bulk of your space ‘unallocated’. To fix his you need to re-partition your USB stick. When you do this you need to save any data already on the stick as the reformatting process is destructive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alankearn 10 #3 Posted September 8, 2019 You have it right I have looked in disk managment and here is the result click here http://postimg.cc/hQdyhXPX How do I repartion please Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat 10 #4 Posted September 8, 2019 I’m afraid you will need a Windows user for that info as I have had Macs for donkeys. If I remember rightly, you need to look for something like diskpart in your Start Menu and then use the command clean but like I said, I don’t really know. Lots of Widows users on her who I’m sure can help. 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Guest #5 Posted September 8, 2019 Right click on the two actual partitions on that drive, it'll leave you with one big empty block, right click, create new partition and you can create one the full size Off the top of my head... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
zach 235 #6 Posted September 8, 2019 When you're in disk manager Right click on the other partitions (in blue) and delete When it shows all black (unallocated) Right click and create new. You can use diskpart from cmd or powershell but be very careful when you select the drive, it is very unforgiving. As above, open a command prompt or powershell and type in... diskpart select disk X (X being the drive number) in your case disk 1 clean initialise the drive and create a new partition, And once again... DO NOT get the drive number wrong, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alankearn 10 #7 Posted September 9, 2019 Flash drive problem solved using Partition Manager. Thanks to you all for your advice/help Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...