Something weird happened to my Flash Drive after uninstalling Hexxeh's ChromeOS

[Dr. Fishtastic]

So I installed Hexxeh's ChromeOS distro on my 8GB flash drive, according to the instructions, and it worked perfectly. Now today, I decided to start using the flash drive normally, and when I formatted it, the window said the stick's capacity was only 250mb, which it is now.

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I've tried re-formatting it, as a FAT and FAT32 drive, and nothing works

[alphaspida]

Looks like your drive is corrupted.

[Grey]

The same happened to me. I downloaded Ubuntu and used the LiveCD to delete the 250mb partition and reformat. It works fine now.

[Darkimmortal]

Winkey+R, diskmgmt.msc

[Dr. Fishtastic]

[QUOTE=alphaspida;23954217]Looks like your drive is corrupted.[/QUOTE]

Actually, viewing this under the Disk Manager, it shows that 6.something GB is "Unallocated Space0). It doesn't act like a partition, so I can't get rid of it. I don't know what to do at this point :v:

[Panda X]

Download this: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2073343/BootIt.exe[/url]

1. Select your flash drive.

2. Click flip removable bit.

3. Take out / re-insert.

4. Open diskmgmt.msc and you can partition it fine.

5. Repeat steps 1 - 3.

[Dr. Fishtastic]

[QUOTE=Panda X;23954560]Download this: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2073343/BootIt.exe[/url]

1. Select your flash drive.

2. Click flip removable bit.

3. Take out / re-insert.

4. Open diskmgmt.msc and you can partition it fine.

5. Repeat steps 1 - 3.[/QUOTE]

Doesn't seem to do anything

[Chris2k5]

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;23954408]Actually, viewing this under the Disk Manager, it shows that 6.something GB is "Unallocated Space0). It doesn't act like a partition, so I can't get rid of it. I don't know what to do at this point :v:[/QUOTE]

Extend the partition to the left of the unallocated space, into the unallocated space.

Select the partition to the left of it, Right Click, Extend. 

* This works in Windows 7, I think with other OS's you need third party software (not 100% sure).

[Panda X]

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;23954782]Doesn't seem to do anything[/QUOTE]

When you flip the removable bit Windows recognizes it as an external HDD rather that a removable flash drive. Giving you the ability to partition it properly. Or unpartition.

[Dr. Fishtastic]

[QUOTE=Panda X;23961239]When you flip the removable bit Windows recognizes it as an external HDD rather that a removable flash drive. Giving you the ability to partition it properly. Or unpartition.[/QUOTE]

It doesn't work though, and any options to delete/re-partition in DM has been grayed out