I did some quick testing on a Windows 7 and a Windows 8 machine. This will also help with formatting other hard to format USB drives, even if they weren't used with MemTest86. In most cases you can now just pick the Reformat option to get all the space back on the USB flash drive. ImageUSB now includes an option to directly format the drive on machines running Vista and later. A normal format will now recover the full capacity of the USB drive. You will need to reinsert the drive for Windows to recognize it and prompt for formatting before you can use it again. (Be careful and select the correct drive!).Ĥ. Launch imageUSB and select the appropriate UFD. WARNING: THIS PROCESS WILL TOTALLY DELETE THE DATA ON THE DRIVEĢ. Starting with imageUSB, there is a new option to "Zero UFD (Boot Sector Only)". To erase the partition records and reclaim the whole disk, you will need to zero the MBR. Formatting will not span across multiple partitions/volume. For example, this can happen when an UFD contain multiple partitions like MemTest86 V5. If you have used imageUSB to write an image to the drive, they may be a chance you lost some disk space and normal formatting will not recover the lost space. In Windows OS, if this information is erased from the USB Flash Drive (UFD), Windows should prompt you to format the drive when you insert the UFD into the system. This is how different Operating Systems identify and assign/mount the drives to be used. The MBR contains information on how the physical drive is partition and what file system is in use. The first 512 bytes of a drive is typically the Master Boot Record (MBR). The problem stems from the fact that the Windows Disk Management function doesn't allow for wiping or re-partitioning of USB flash drives. We have had a few users wondering how to get back the space on a USB drive after using MemTest86.
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