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So, I made a Kali Live Persistance bootable USB but now I want to format and get it to it's normal state. Can someone tell me how to do it? When I try to just right-click format it, It shows the size of the USB as 8 GB even though it's a 32GB USB. Even choosing Restore device defaults doesn't work.

How I made it? I used Rufus. I followed the normal steps with a persistence space of 20GB and That's how I got to this point.

As you can see in the image below, it shows a storage capacity of approximately 8.5 GB even though its a 32 GB pendrive. I set up 20 GB persistence storage using rufus. so I wanted to know is there a way to get that storage back? If yes, How?

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P.S. I am currently on windows so a windows tutorial would be recommended. And something that doesn't require me to install softwares will be appreciated.

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  • Use Disk Management instead and remove all partitions.
    – user931000
    Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 13:23

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Rufus has a mode to restore a bootable USB to generic storage media (because, of course, if an application allows you to change something, it usually also allows you to revert those changes).

See that Boot selection menu in Rufus? Just select Non bootable in there with whatever file system you want, and Rufus will happily restore your USB to a single partition non-bootable regular media, that will use all the available capacity.

Next time, you may also want to look at the Rufus FAQ, which has a dedicated entry for this.

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  • Thank you so much. I didn't expect rufus to have this feature as well.
    – Hero9868
    Commented Oct 10, 2019 at 9:20

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