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wipe clean your bootable usb

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Ever thought about reusing your usb back. Sure if you want to make another bootable usb with different operating system you can always burn another iso images , even with windows you can, but cases differ if you relies on media creation tools or surface IT toolkit that needs the usb have storage instead of full with bootable files.

The thing is you can restore your usb and treat it like a normal disk where you can clear its content and turn it back into normal storage device

Method 1: Use DiskPart (works 100%)

⚠️ This will erase EVERYTHING on the USB.

Plug in your USB
Open Command Prompt as Administrator
Type:

diskpart
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List disks:

list disk
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👉 Identify your USB (by size!)

Select it (example: Disk 2):

select disk 2
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Wipe it completely:

clean
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Create new partition:

create partition primary
Format it:

format fs=fat32 quick
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Assign drive letter:
assign

Exit:
exit

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