If you're like me, at some point you've probably been duped and bought a USB stick pertaining to be a certain size, only to find out it isn't. They frig the size thats reported and sell it as a higher capacity drive. GRRR!
Anyway, if you can't get your money back (or can't be bothered), you can still make the drive useful using these commands which overwrite everything on the drive and allow it to be writeable. (I did this on a cheap mp3 player as well and it fixed the problem of not being able to play certain files.)
Open a command prompt and type the following commands. (Make sure you select the correct disk number !)
If you're not sure which is the correct disk, check the size or use Disk Management (Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management)
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format quick fs=fat32
assign
exit
I've reposted this from here which was about fixing this issue with a USB stick that had been formatted by an Xbox because as my problem had a different origin.
http://www.ardamis.com/2012/03/03/windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-unable-to-copy-files/
Friday 8 February 2013
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