Question Easy 2 Boot Memory can't be formatted back to standard memory stick

KEITH FORSYTH

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I created a Easy 2 Boot memory stick for installing a windows operating system, but when I was done I tried to reformat it back to FAT32. Although it shows as empty now my computer sees it as 2 drives: an Easy 2 Boot stick and my new formatted drive name. Any Ideas?
 
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Go into Disk Management (Right click My Computer or This PC, click Manage and then click Disk Management). Delete both volumes for your USB drive and create a single new volume and format it.
 

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If for some reason you can't use the Disk Manager console to delete partitions (happens if the partitions are locked), you can use a command prompt and use diskpart to clean a drive.

Just be very careful to select the right drive, as the clean command will wipe the selected disk completely.
 
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