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unwanted partiton on usb drive

When a friend returned my 64gb usb drive he had wiped everything off of it. I noticed that is only showed 32gb formatted and 32gb unallocated. Using windows 10 I have tried to remove partition keeping it from using all 64gb to no avail I cant even increase or decrease the32gb that is formatted. Just want to get to 64gb in a fat32 format

Qlemo

AFAIK you cannot change the partition size for FAT32 file systems, only for NTFS. You can, however, use 3rd-party partitioning tools - there should be some free ones out there ...

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McKnife

Windows' disk management allows fat32 partitions to be no larger than 32 GB... what a shame. You need external tool or you will have to use exfat or NTFS. Of course, wíndows can use this partition afterwards ;-)

noxcho

Take a picture of your Windows Disk Management and post it here. You can remove that partition using Diskpart.exe via command line.

nobus

or try this : http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/format-fat32-drives-beyond-32gb-limit/

Christ Harold

Hi,
There is simple solution for your problem is that you can use
Diskpar.exe using the Command line
Read this article for complete process
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
Hope this will help you
regards
Christ

McKnife

@Chris: no. diskpart has the same limitation: 32 GB max for fat32. Microsoft artificially sanctions fat32 in favor of NTFS.

tcands

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