USB not able to restore to full capacity

[Zodiac1110]

I can't get my USB device to restore to full HDD capacity, although with this program named "bootice" I've got it back to 1.97mb with four different partitions (The drive is an 8gb pny about an inch long), meaning 4 different drives when I plug in once drive you will see 4 letters saying that 4 drives exist. I've used Ease US Master Partition to try and reformat the drive, I've used several other tools including Rufus and windows diskpart to try and fix it but the all just stop or fail for some odd error. And now i put my other 32-bit jumpdrive in and is doing the same thing. Except windows isn't even recognizing it. So I've tried all these programs and just don't know what to do I've had some success with bootice because it did make the drive usable, just in 4 different 1.97 partitions. It is a 8gb drive again i say. Pny.

[Geek-9pm]

We are talking about a flash drive, not a hard drive.  - Right?
There  are a numb er of reasons s for this problem.
• First, it is not a good idea to have multiple partitions on a USB drive in Windows.
• Second, some USB drives are fake and do no really have full capacity.
• Third, there are malware programs that sneak into USB flash drives.
Here is a reliable article about malware and USB drives.

Most USB thumb drives can be reprogrammed to silently infect computer
The article is from PC World. 
You may need to scan your whole computer. If there is evidence  the USB flash drives are infected, you will have to destroy them.
This is not a joke. Read the article.

[patio]

The capacity is correct....if you want all the space together delete all 4 partitions and then format it FAT32...

It'll be somewhat less than 8G total...but thats normal.

[DaveLembke]

Curious why you created FOUR 2GB (1.97GB) partitions to begin with, what were you trying to accomplish? Was this drive to be set up with 4 different OS's installed to it each in their own partition or something?

[patio]

I'm thinking it's one of those corporate promo stiks that write privelidges are dis-abled...

[DaveLembke]

I'm thinking it's one of those corporate promo stiks that write privelidges are dis-abled...

Forgot all about those ... the write once type