Repair a flash drive that isnt displaying full capacity

For whatever reason, your 4GB flash drive is only showing that it is a 1 GB drive. Well this just won't do. In my case it is because I want to test chromium out, so I created a bootable flash drive with chromium. SO of course when i was done with it and reformatted it to use for files again, It gave me just under a 1GB of capacity to work with. here is how to fix this problem.

You will want to enter Disk Management. If you don't know where this is located, right-click "My Computer" and click "Manage". A new window will pop up and towards the boot of the list on the left hand side you will see "Disk Management". This will show you all the disks connected to your computer be they an internal HDD, an external solid state hard drive, or a flash drive.

Find the drive letter that was given to your hard drive ( probably going to be E:, F: or G:, could be different depending on how many storage units you are using. Regardless, you can find out which drive letter your flash drive has within "My Computer").

Now that you have found your flash drive within Disk Management, you will probably see a box with a blue line and one or more boxes with black lines. Those boxes that have black lines are partitions that aren't being used or accessed. Right click on one of the unused partitions and click "Delete Partition". This should remove all partitions into one single unformatted drive. Then all you have to do is right-click the drive, select "Create Partition" and the defaults wizard will walk you through setting up flash drive up again to a working condition. Feel free to comment or message me at err298@gmail.com with any questions!

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