Thursday, July 28, 2022

Recovering an USB drive

After creating an Antix linux operating system installation USB drive (30GB) and finishing the OS installation, I wanted the use the drive as usual for copying files. However, Windows 10 showed me a full 4MB drive and did not allow me to copy any files there:
I opened Windows Disk Management a saw that there was an unallocated 29.95GB volume:
I right clicked on the unallocated partition but New Simple Volume option was disabled. I ran Windows diskpart.exe and selected disk 1:
I deleted the partition on disk 1 using the override flag:

Now in Disk Management, New Simple Volume option was enabled:

I selected that option and created an new volume but formatting failed with "The system cannot find the file specified". When I tried to format with file explorer, I got "Windows was unable to complete the format" message. With diskpart.exe, I used clean:
In Disk Management I tried New Simple Volume again, this time it formatted the drive successfully:

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