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Recovering a USB drive completely after turning it into a bootable Chrome OS drive

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mhc08000 Posted messages 3 Status Member -  
mhc08000 Posted messages 3 Status Member -
Hello,
I wanted to create a bootable USB drive to install a version of Chrome OS on an old laptop running Windows XP, but unfortunately, the operation did not work. Wanting to recover the USB drive, I deleted the files from the bootable USB drive and then tried to reformat it. The problem is that I now have two partitions on the USB drive. I have one partition G: FAT32 with a capacity of 1.04 GB and another I: with 6.20 GB FAT32

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide to recover my USB drive into a single 8GB partition.
Best regards to you all.

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    Navibot Posted messages 952 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   219
     
    Hello

    you need to unpartition the USB flash drive

    2 ways
    You can easily do this with the management console on your computer.
    To access this console, right-click on "My Computer" and choose "Manage"
    Once the console is open, select "Disk Management"
    You should see your USB flash drive and its 2 partitions; right-click on each volume and select "Delete Volume" (note that all data will be erased), repeat this for each volume on your drive
    Once the partitions are deleted, all you have to do is format the partition of your USB drive.

    or
    use a free software like EaseUS Partition Master
    https://www.easeus.fr/partition-manager/partition-master-free.html
    and explanations here (middle of the page)
    https://www.easeus.fr/partition-manager-tips/comment-supprimer-une-partition-sur-une-cle-usb-windows-10.html

    be careful to choose the USB drive and not your hard drive
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  2. mhc08000 Posted messages 3 Status Member
     
    Hello!
    A very sincere thank you!!! It works perfectly!
    Happy holidays! ;-)
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