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Fixing memory stick?

I bought an 8GB HP memory stick a few months ago and it worked fine, but after installing a live operating system to it and re-formatting it, only 250MB will format. The rest will only show up in windows partition manager as unallocated space, and all the obvious options (create partitions or expand partitions) are greyed out. Any diea how to re-format it to get the full 8GB useable again?

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Oct 1, 2011. 8:05 PMthegeeke says:
Look for a free os called knoppix. You can run it off the cd without making any changes to your computer, and it has some nice troubleshooting tools. Once you have booted from the cd, run gparted. That is a partition manager. If any partition manager can fix it, gparted can.

If all else fails, get a new one. (I got a 16 gb at staples the other day for $10.)
Oct 1, 2011. 6:08 PMfrollard says:
Probably have to remove ALL partitions, then create partition with logical drive.

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