Is my thumbdrive ruined?

[zerbutz]

I recently used my 32 GB usb drive as a Fedora 22 LiveCD to do a clean reinstall on my system. Thing is, I used the "destructive method" as I wasn't concerned about saving the information that was already on the thumbdrive. But is it ruined for good now? I can't format it and I can't delete any of the Fedora installation stuff off it. It says it's 1.4 GB now instead of 32 GB.

When I try to format the usb drive, I get an error saying, "This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device." ...But I don't know how to do that.

Not very good with computers, could really use some help. Thank you.

 

[beers]

Sounds like it was repartitioned, some partitioning of flash drives is a PITA in Windows.

This program usually works pretty well for re-establishing them:
http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html

Alternatively if you still have a Linux environment you should be able to use gparted or something on it.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Just run CMD as an administrator and run Diskpart. Type Select Disk. A list of disks will appear. Find yours and type "Select disk #" replacing # with the appropriate number. Then do the next commands.

Clean
Create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs

You're done.

 

[Troncoso]

Or use the desktop app version at Start menu > type "Disk Management"...