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--- the_painful_windows10_way [2018/04/19 08:13]
– created gurce
+++ the_painful_windows10_way [2018/12/02 18:42] (current)
– mentioned 'Full Format' technique from Nicole Birgel gurce
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 ====== The painful Windows10 way ======
+> __NOTE__: (03/12/2018) Nicole Birgel in the fb forum suggested:
+> - do not to use "Quick Format"
+> - do a "**Full Format**"
+> - FB user Dean Le Blanc recently reported success with this method:
+>   - https://www.facebook.com/groups/209280506324242/permalink/330439800874978/
 I'm somewhat reluctant to share the Windows10 way of doing this, as I found it far too fiddly, and with so many steps, it increases the likelihood for making mistakes and accidentally trashing your hard-disk rather than fixing your USB stick!
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 ===== Initial Notes =====
-  * Windows has a GUI-based partitioning tool called "**Disk Management**", but one drawback of it is that it does not permit the removal of volumes/partitions from remove-drives such as USB sticks.
+  * Windows has a GUI-based partitioning tool called "**Disk Management**", but one drawback of it is that it does not permit the removal of volumes/partitions from removable-drives such as USB sticks.
   * So for this 'volume/partition removal' step, I had to resort to a command-line tool called "**diskpart**"
   * For the creation of new partitions on the USB stick, I jump back to the GUI-based "**Disk Management**" tool