Chrome OS Killed My USB Drive - How To Get It Back Up And Running

Posted on the December 1st, 2009 under Industry News, Tutorials by Timothy Allard

If you are playing around with Chromium OS and made your USB drive bootable, you may come across an issue. Here is a scenario - You just put Chromium OS on your bootable USB drive. You are now done with your experiment and now want to go about using your USB drive for other storage, but come across a problem. Your drive is not usable and shows an inaccurate file size of the disk. Here is how to solve that problem.

Luckily this problem is a quick fix, but can be annoying or may leave people stuck for a while. First, plug in your drive and right click on “my computer” and click “manage”. Under storage click “disk management”. You should see your USB drive on the list. Find your appropriate drive and click format.

You will now be able to use the drive like you could before.

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