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1. 

   splash
   

   New Member
   Joined: Oct '08
   Posts: 3

   Hi

   im trying to make a USB flash device boot with windows PE, part of that means i need to use diskpart to format the USB drive as fat32 spanning the entire device.

   I followed the below commands in diskpart (vista) but i entered the wrong partition size and now i cant extend it or delete it and start again, can anyone help?

   When i try to do the create partition size bit again it says "there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset"

   diskpart
   select disk 1
   clean
   create partition primary size=<size of device>
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=fat32
   assign
   exit

   Cheers

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   al
   

   Administrator
   Joined: Jul '08
   Posts: 42

   Try the Easueus Partition Manager. It's free partition software that actually works. I've been really busy so I haven't been able to review it, but I will be in the next few days, and will try to give you guys free copies to use with Vista x64.

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   splash
   

   New Member
   Joined: Oct '08
   Posts: 3

   i just tried that but its not recognising my USB drive. Im on a XP machine now and not the Vista machine, do you think that could be why the USB drive isnt being recognised?

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   splash
   

   New Member
   Joined: Oct '08
   Posts: 3

   after quite a bit of playing about with in diskpart and on a different vista machine i got it working agian

   cheers

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   nicolengeow
   

   New Member
   Joined: Dec '08
   Posts: 1

   i just bought a new laptop.
   when i install the OS(vista), i saw 2 hard disk partition, 1st is 100GB, 2nd is 150GB (stated unallocated).
   after that, i go to "my computer" and check.
   i can only see the 1st partition(100GB). no sign of the 2nd one.
   how can i use another 150GB?
   what can i do about this?

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   al
   

   Administrator
   Joined: Jul '08
   Posts: 42

   can you take a picture and show me how your partition tables are outlined?

   Posted 3 years ago #

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