Flash drive gone nuts

[bensley]

My 1G flash drive is now 256Gb raw can't do anything with it not formating or partitioning with any program the volume is too large can anyone help?

 

[mailpup]

Have you checked this thread?: https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic45834.html

Edit: I didn't notice at first that this is a duplicate of another post.

 

[bensley]

Thanks for your reply and my apology for posting the thread twice as I am new to this.
I still have no success with it as it is a partitioning problem all PC's see it as 256G not 256M or 1G as it should be there for any formating attempted is of this large volume, I have tried many suggested programs and from dos partitioning as well and it still apears as 256G.

 

[Tedster]

if you have removed ALL partitions, and then created 1 large partition and it is still less than 1gb then the drive is bad. replace it.

 

[bensley]

Hi and thanks for your reply, the disk didn't get smaller but bigger.
I got a reply from kingston and they say that when I tried to make it bootable which this drive is not compatble with it happened.
I have it in another thread you can check.
I was able to partition it and format it using Dos however it became a 4G usable in windows with 252G unusable just remember it was originaly a 1G drive only.

 

[Tedster]

do a RAW format from windows disk management. REMOVE all partitions.

You may need to try this from a hard disk management CD that frequently comes with new hard drives.

 

[bensley]

I have tried that the flash drive is already in raw format and the partition fanction is not availble in windows or the consol. I was only able to delete the partition using an XP start up CD but in creating a new partition in comes back to that large size. I have also able to partition it in DOS once it has been deleted using the XP cd using a floppy on startup and that once again gave me the option of 4G that was usable for a short time and shown as 50% partitioned while there is 252G unpartitioned and windows management consol then showed it as unusable.
Now it locks up the p.c when pluged in.