Saturday, February 16, 2019

windows 7 - Removing BOOTMGR from USB flash drive


Got 8GB flash drive. It was formatted to FAT32 and is completely empty, but windows shows that 4KB are in use (once formatted to NTFS windows shows that 54MB are in use).


Used some disk editing software to look inside. Turns out the space is taken by some BOOTMGR. As I understand this is only used if I would be booting something from this flash drive?


Any way to wipe it all? So that after format where would be no used space.


Answer



Sure, here is how to.


Note that the used space could be overhead of the filesystem. Check if formarting to FAT32 reduces the used space.


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