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How to Restore a Pen Drive Capacity

Back to Full Using Diskpart ?
Anuraag (http://www.datarecovery.institute/author/admin/) | August 26th, 2014
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Any user would be highly disappointed knowing that they are unable to make use of the
complete storage capacity of their USB drive. This, however, happens usually when a
malware has hit the device ending up hiding its original storage capacity, i.e. if the USB
device storage capacity is 4 GB then, only 500 MB of it will be shown as available. The
rst attempt to overcome this condition by most users is to scan and format the drive to
free it from any possible infections. However, this mostly doesnt help in solving the
problem to any extent and leaves the user amused as to how to restore a pen drives
capacity back in original state? Implementing The Diskpart Command Diskpart is a command
line using which, one can successfully recover the unallocated space on their pen drive
to regain its original storage capacity. Two major steps that are involved during the
execution of diskpart command, are:
1. Repartition
2. Reformatting
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NOTE: This command line method is applicable on all types of external storage medias
including; ash drives, SD cards, etc., of NT, FAT32, & FAT16 File Systems, respectively. Use
Diskpart Command To Recover Partition Capacity All you need to do, to restore pen
drive capacity back to the original, is carefully follow each step mentioned below: Before
starting to reclaim a pen drive data storage capacity, perform the following steps:
1. Check the used and available space on your USB drive.
2. Open the formatting window for the drive to conrm that the capacity cannot be
switched back to its original state. NOTE: Do not format the drive, rather, continue
to Stage One.

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Format Drive
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Stage One: Repartition

1. Go to the Start menu of your computer. Type in Run in the search box
provided.

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Navigate to Start>Run
NOTE: Ensure that the User Account being used is either an Administrator account or is
privileged with administrative rights.
2. When the Run window opens, type in diskpart (without using space or
quotation marks) in the eld provided and click on Ok.

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Navigate to Run>Type Diskpart
3. This will open up the command prompt window with disk partition command
typed in it.

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Execute Diskpart
4. Now type: list disk and hit Enter. This will display the list of disks available on
the respective machine.

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List Disk
5. Cross check the size of your USB drive and select the respective disk by typing
in; select disk # followed by hitting Enter. # here denotes the number of your
USB disk drive as shown on the list of disks displayed.

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Select Disk
TIP: Be careful while selecting the disk. Make sure you dont select the hard disk of your
computer and end up losing all your data.
6. The command prompt screen will then show Disk # is now the selected disk. Now
type, select partition # (your disk number). And press Enter.

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Select partition
7. Now CMD will show partition # is now the selected partition message. Then, type
delete partition followed by pressing Enter.

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Delete Partition
8. A list of command options i.e., DISK, PARTITION, VOLUME will be displayed. On the
command screen type: partition and press Enter. Again a list of command options
to choose from will be displayed.

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Version
9. The next step is to type: create partition primary and hit on Enter. A message will be
displayed on the command prompt window stating No usable free extent could be
found.

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Create Primary Partition
10. To repartition the drive and restore pen drive capacity, just type in; clean, and hit
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Enter. A successful cleaning message will appear on the window.

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Diskpart Clean Command
11. Again type: create partition primary followed by hitting Enter. This will create the
specied partition that means, you have succeeded in completing the Stage One:
Repartition.

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Create Primary Partition
Stage Two: Reformatting
1. When you go back to the My Computer window displaying your
connected USB device.

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USB Drive Information
2. Now when you try to format the drive to restore pen drive capacity to its
full state, you will notice that the original size is being displayed on the
format window instead of the capacity shown earlier.

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Re Format
3. After conrming size, choose any File System from the drop down list to
reformat your USB drive with. And click on Start to begin the formatting
procedure. NOTE: A warning message will appear stating that
continuing the formatting will erase all data from the disk. Click Ok to
continue.

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system.png)
File System

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Formatting Steps
4. Once completed, a new pop up window will appear stating the Format
Complete message. Click on Ok.

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Format Complete
5. You can now check the drive capacity, which would have successfully
been restored to original.
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The Final Observation
Make sure that you miss out on none of the above listed steps categorized under two
sections respectively to help you successfully restore pen drive capacity back to original.
The steps are absolutely reliable to depend upon, as a prior trial and testing of the
method has been done.

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