16GB pen drive showing 2MB space after formatting on windows 7

Question

I burned Ubuntu 14.04 image on 16GB pen drive on laptop having ubuntu.

Now when I inserted this pen drive it showed 2MB free space without recognising any other space.

I formatted pen drive on windows 7 PC.

Now after I rebooted my computer and tried to boot from pen drive, i was able to install ubuntu on my dekstop.

now my problem is that now also it is showing 2MB free space.

After using the disks utility I get the following displayed :

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How can I recover my 16 GB free space ??

Please Help !!

Answer 1

If you want, you can even fix that in windows, run cmd as administrator then type

diskpart
list disk
select disk 1 (make sure its the right one)
clean (if it complains about permission, just type clean again)

then just make new volume in disk management, right click on computer -> manage ->disk management

Answer 2

You have to remove partition 1 and system Partition 2 ;

Then you can create a new 16GB partition and format it as you like

Don't you see that there is a 16GB free space unformatted at the end

Answer 3

This is easy to fix. Merely open GParted, you may need to install it if it is not installed. Then right click on the 2 Mb FAT partition and select Resize/Move. You can expand that partition into the 15 Gb of Free Space.

Answer 4

1. Go to gparted.

2. Navigate to the pendrive. In my case it was /dev/sdb/

3. Delete all the partitions.

4. Create a new Partition which comprises of all the allocated space.

5. Click apply.