You may need to make your USB pen drive bootable to install a new operating system. However, if you need that bootable pen drive for normal use then you may have a problem getting it back to its original state.
Here in this article, we will learn how to convert a bootable pen drive back to normal in Windows. You can also check our guide on how to create a bootable USB pen drive.
How to Convert a Bootable Pendrive Back to Normal
If you created a bootable pen drive and now you want to use it as a normal pen drive then you can follow this guide. Here we are going to use the Windows system to make our bootable pen drive back to normal.
Step 1: Open “Command Prompt” and run it as administrator. To open the command prompt click on the windows search icon and search for the command prompt.
Step 2: Now run a few commands here is the list of commands you need to run in order to convert the bootable pen drive to normal.
- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk * (*stands for the disk number of your bootable USB drive)
- clean
- create partition primary
- format fs=fat32 quick
- Exit
Step 3: After that, you are ready to use it as a normal pen drive. Now you can change your pen drive name from the “File Explorer“. For that, select the pen drive, right-click on it and select the “Rename” option, and name your pen drive.
That’s it. This is how you can convert a bootable pendrive back to normal. I hope this article was helpful to you. If you liked the article then you can share it with your friends.
