Windows 10: I have a 4GB USB stick which was formatted by an OS, and it formatted into about 10...

I have a 4GB USB stick that has been formatted by another OS, I cannot remember which, and it formatted it, and it finished with many partitions.I have managed to consolidate most partitions and formatted the largest one to Windows 10, however, I am still not able to remove the partitions or consolidate the whole drive. Would you please point me in the right direction to get help to achieve my getting back a single partition for Windows 10?*Moved from feedback.

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Formatting a USB Stick

Hi Richard, yes formatting the stick will delete the files . . .

Try that USB Stick in another (preferably non Windows 10) PC and see if the Stick reads.

If it does, copy the files form the stick, format it and copy the files back onto the stick.

 

Chkdsk shows errors after formatting the usb stick

In order to reproduce the problem, I am doing the following steps:

• I put a text file with a single line of text on the usb file.
• I plug in a USB stick to a PC and in the explorer window I go to the usb stick drive.
• I double-click on the text file and open it in notepad.
• I close the notepad.
• I the explorer I go to the one level up and I click the right button on the USB drive and choose the properties->format.
• I formatted the disk with default proposed parameters (FAT32).

The disk is empty after formatting. At the command line prompt window, I type the chkdsk and the letter of the USB drive and I am receiving information that errors have been found (Convert lost chains to files (y/n)?).

I checked it with various usb sticks and different systems (Windows 7, 8, 10) and I got the same results.

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Formatting usb sticks

In previous Windows versions I was able to plug into the computer a usb stick, right click on properties and from there format the stick, can't find the procedure on Windows 10, please advise, thanks!