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How to unboot my bootable usb [duplicate]

I recently made my pen-drive bootable with Ubuntu 14.04. But I need to unboot my pen-drive now. I formatted my pen-drive once,But the size of the pen-drive still shows 2.25 MB. Whereas,this is an 8GB ...
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My 8GB Toshiba USB drive became 4mb in size how can i restore it? [duplicate]

My 8gb USB drive just became 4mb. I already tried the diskpart method, bootice, HP USB Storage Format. But still the capacity still the same. Is there other way?
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toshiba 16gb drive turns to 4mb [duplicate]

My toshiba pen drive is now 4mb and i'm really freaking out. I have tried everything from easeus partition master, testdisk, hp usb disk utility. I've searched the entire web for help and nothing has ...
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Unallocated Space after Live Disk Creation [duplicate]

I have a 16gb flash drive that I used as a live USB. While it was live, it had a total capacity of 2mb after formatting it, it still says 2mb. I viewed the disk in disk management and it showed ...
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8GB memory stick only showing 49MB

I have an 8GB Sony USB memory stick and only 49 MB are being detected. I've tried on multiple USB ports and tried formatting it several times. I checked it for errors and it said none are found. I ...
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16GB USB flash drive shows as 16MB and is unusable [duplicate]

I have a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB USB flash drive, but it started to show up as 16MB. And I can't use it, it tells me that I need to format the drive or Please insert a disk into drive X. What software do ...
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1 GB space left, even after formatting a 16 GB flash drive? [duplicate]

My 16 GB USB flash drive (SanDisk Cruzer SDCZ36-016G BL1008OFZB) got corrupted and I was going to format it, when I saw the setting for size only had one element in its dropdown menu: 1.00 GB. ...
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16GB USB flash drive turned to 1GB after writing an ISO image onto it [duplicate]

I have a 16GB flash drive for almost seven years. It was all good before not long ago, when I tried to write a Ubuntu image onto it. I made it many times before and had no issues about. But this time, ...
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Why and how does Rufus use FAT32 for a bootable Linux ISO?

I never paid attention to this detail, and always thought that Rufus writes "the original ISO image" to the destination disk without changing anything. But today I noticed that when writing ...
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USB Drive missing space, no unallocated space found in Device Manager [duplicate]

I followed the link below to try and fix this issue but unfortuantly DiskPart, GParted or any other method has been unsuccessful. It's a 32GB flash drive and I'm seeing 1.8GB. Any ways of totally ...
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Toshiba pendrive shows 4 MB instead of 8 GB; what could have happened to it? [duplicate]

I have a Toshiba 8 GB pendrive. All of a sudden, it's showing total space 4 MB. I have tried diskpart and various other software, but no gain. The disk management is also not showing unallocated space....
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SanDisk 32GB Flash Drive now a 14MB Flash drive [duplicate]

I have a 32GB Sandisk Cruzer Flash drive when I connected it to my PC it read 14MB. What went wrong and How can I fix it?
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USB not correctly formatted

I have formatted a usb flash drive withs size of 2,5 GB and now it shows me that it's size is 8 MB. How can I fix it to be 2,5 GB again?
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USB used as bootable but when I deleted from disk management the unallocated left is 8gb out of 32GB

I used GPT bootable disk but didn't boot when I tried installing. So wanted to format the disk back to normal but can not format. So I went to disk management and delete all files in usb but the ...
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