Hi folks,
Need a little help here please. I have a USB that's somehow formatted in 2 partitions and no matter what I do whether on the Mac or Windows machines I can not return this 2 gig USB back to it original state of being just a single partition.
Can someone advise me please?
iMac, iOS 8.1.3, 27" iMac 5k Retina 2014
Use Disk Utility to remove and reformat the device. Also please try to be more descriptive on what you have attempted, when you use phrases such as "no matter what I do" this is not specific, we have no idea what you attempted.
Disk Utility is located in Applications - Utilities - Disk Utility
Hi, and thanks for the reply..
I tried to erase the partitions in Disk Utility but that only erased the space used by the two partitions individually keeping them both intact.
I tried BootIce in Windows and that just did the same thing as DU.
It seems that just the partitions data are being wiped and not the partitions themselves. It could be what I am seeing is 2 Volumes?
I have no idea how to return the USB to a single volume.
When I try to erase that 1.6mg volume I get this error..
Using SDFormatter, which is meant to restore USB sticks back to their original single volume also only give me the option to format the 2 volumes on the single USB.. but not merge them to a single volume.
I believe this article will explain how to correctly do it:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2087881/turning-two-partitions-into-one.html
Thank you but I already tried that. Did not work.. the - (minus symbol) is greyed out and inactive. As I said before I think these are volumes and not partitions. This is 2 volumes with a single partition on each. That article is only useful if multiple partitions were on a single volume.
Does anyone know how to restore a USB with 2 volumes back to it's original One?
Try running Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition and see if that helps. If you don't know about the RP, restart the computer and hold down Command + R. If that doesn't help then I am out of suggestions.
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