Why can't I create a new volume on removable media?

Question

Iron

Hello. I inserted a flash drive (16GB) and there it gives out only 286MB, I went into disk management and there it is (photo) . You cannot create a new volume. What to do?

Answer 1

Format with a third-party utility (eg HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (HPUSBFW) , and here 's how to use it).

Answer 2

Windows treats USB flash drives as removable by default and enforces security policies, even if you have more than one drive, Windows will only display the first one.
There is a hack "Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver" that will allow you to define all flash drives as hard drives.
For other magic, use the console DISKPART.