pendrive size got reduced while linux usb boot

Question

Hi when i was trying to install a linux operating system i got booted the operating system on to my USB device after that i found (my USB Stick has total 8 Gigs) it got reduced to 2 Gigs in size. Why? what happened to my usb stick? How can i retrive my size back, i tried formatting the device on my windows mahcine, but no use. it' s really frustrating

parthiban · Answer

Try re-formatting your USB Stick using windows machine or any third party software to format a USB drive like sd card formatter or anything else, or else you can simply use linux command to format your usb using fdisk command