How to "un"floppy'ise 256mb USB pen drive ?

[RJK]

....sorry but, growing ever rustier on partitioning etc

A few months ago I used a utility from HP to put a 1.44mb bootable floppy
image onto an old 256mb USB pen-drive, and have since uninstalled the HP
utility,...but, and would now like to get rid of that 1.44mb bootable
partition. How ? ....XP Home Disk Management can only see the 239mb
partition ?
....I have got Partition Magic 8? somewhere around here...

TIA

regards, Richard

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

...sorry but, growing ever rustier on partitioning etc

A few months ago I used a utility from HP to put a 1.44mb bootable floppy
image onto an old 256mb USB pen-drive, and have since uninstalled the HP
utility,...but, and would now like to get rid of that 1.44mb bootable
partition. How ? ....XP Home Disk Management can only see the 239mb
partition ?
...I have got Partition Magic 8? somewhere around here...

TIA

regards, Richard

I would use the inbuilt Windows Disk Management tool (diskmgmt.msc via the
Start/Run menu).

 

[philo]

I would use the inbuilt Windows Disk Management tool (diskmgmt.msc via the
Start/Run menu).

Since the OP just posted that disk management was unable to do so...
I'd opt for Partition Magic

 

[olfart]

Since the OP just posted that disk management was unable to do so...
I'd opt for Partition Magic

Use the HP USB Storage Disc Format Tool....the one you used originally

 

[RJK]

Thanks all, ...
I still haven't sorted it out. I didn't really want to install that HP Key
utility again but, may have to do that.
....in other words I'm getting too lazy to make a restore point, install and
use the above, then uninstall it, and restore registry.
....also, in other words, across the past few years, I'm getting pretty
"anal" about dead registry keys bloating out my registry !

regards, Richard

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Install it into a virual machine and get the hpusbfw.exe.

Or use my DiskErase (no install required):
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/diskerase.zip


Uwe