Flashing FreeNAS onto USB Flash Drive

[Charles Rhoades]

Just a note to those who might be interested. When I downloaded the .iso from FreeNAS, and then flashed it to a USB Flash Drive to use for installing the OS to the second "final" boot USB Flash Drive. Once I had completed running the install, I took the Install USB Flash Drive and reformatted it in Windows 7 Pro. What had originally been a 32GB flash drive, was now a 382MB Flash Drive.

I contacted SanDisk support for assistance, and they instructed me to download the HP Format Tool Download and use it to re-format the USB thumb drive. It worked and now I have my 32GB restored.

Nice tool...thought you might like it too.

 

[anodos]

Just a note to those who might be interested. When I downloaded the .iso from FreeNAS, and then flashed it to a USB Flash Drive to use for installing the OS to the second "final" boot USB Flash Drive. Once I had completed running the install, I took the Install USB Flash Drive and reformatted it in Windows 7 Pro. What had originally been a 32GB flash drive, was now a 382MB Flash Drive.

I contacted SanDisk support for assistance, and they instructed me to download the HP Format Tool Download and use it to re-format the USB thumb drive. It worked and now I have my 32GB restored.

Nice tool...thought you might like it too.

If you have a Linux system, gparted works pretty well for these sorts of things.

 

[puz]

Yes, the same happened with me. There is plenty of disk management tools out there. Windows Disk Management is definitely behind on most utilities.