Tuesday, November 4, 2014

How to fix USB drive after using it with Cisco D3 4682DVB

When you connect USB drive to the Cisco D3 4682DVB receiver, it will prompt you to format it in order to record video from TV. If you decide to use that drive with the PC you will notice that even after reformatting it, it will show less space than it actually has. For example, my 16 GB Kingston DataTraveler 100 G2 showed only 754 MB of total space. To fix that follow these steps (for Windows):

Open command prompt (CMD) and run following commands.

  1. diskpart
  2. list disk
  3. select disk #, where # is the number of your corrupted drive.
  4. clean
  5. create partition primary
  6. format fs=FAT32 QUICK

and that's it.

diskpart.exe