Got 2 USB keys from Ebay partitioned as 32GB and 64GB resp. Neither one is unable to accept or hold that much when I attempt to fill them in with data. I suspect they're both overpartitioned. What do I do to "tell" each of them they're smaller capacity ones, e.g. 8GB, in an attempt to guess their true capacity and thereby hopefully fix them? Windows tools and apps would be preferred over Linux ones other things equal.
Many thanks in advance!
The first thing I'd try is diskpart clean, which erases the drives' partition tables so that they can be repartitioned and reformatted without an erroneous partition table or boot sector. Basically, you run diskpart in an elevated command prompt, select the drive, and issue the clean command. You'll want to see this answer for a more detailed description of this process.
If this doesn't work and the drive continues to claim that it's larger than it really is, then it's bad and needs to be returned or discarded.
