“Why did this happen? The drive partitioned itself and i cant fix it”

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• Back up anything you want to keep that's on the drive. Use the Diskmanagement utility in Windows to delete the partitions. Open the diskmanagement utility by clicking on Run, then type in the run box "diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotation marks) hit enter, or click OK. Make sure you select the correct drive in the disk management utility so you don't accidentally delete partitions you may have on another drive or drives. Right click on each partition, and then click delete volume. After you delete all the partitions, reformat the drive. Hope this helps...

  Answered by Berlin 10 years ago

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• Try formatting FAT32 with MS disk management. If that's not possible a paid program like Acronis Disk Director won't be able to do anything even if it asks to restart the computer. Check hardware manager and try to get a driver reinstalled. If this doesn't work, the drive will probably need an open RMA with PNY.

  Answered by Altura 9 years ago

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• In my experience this action could only happen by something you chose to do by giving some command. This action would only happen automatically in very early machines with partitions set automatically. Modern-day machines have such large capacities that this should not even be an option. Reformat and don't sat a partition.

  Answered by Luckyeye 9 years ago

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• Use the drive utility

  Answered by Dorothy 9 years ago

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• right click the drive and choose properties

  Answered by profpesh 10 years ago

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• Try formatting the stick, check for any backup software configured to automatically partition any outside storage.

  Answered by Wellatlantic 10 years ago

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• try reformatting it allover?... :(

  Answered by NotMeee 10 years ago

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• reformat the drive

  Answered by bestbuyer 10 years ago

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• Plug it in to your laptop and use the program Mini Partition available at www.download.com

  Answered by DannyV 10 years ago

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• Just reformat to NTFS.

  Answered by Walt 10 years ago

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