Thumb drive is acting weird, trying to make a linux live cd

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Hi, so I have a usb drive that I have I want to turn into a linux live cd, and when I open up the thumb drive, it says that there is only 416 kilobytes of space, and when I format the drive it still reads that, it is supposed to be able to store 16 gigabytes, so if any one can point me in a good direction for a tool of which can completely wipe drives, in windows, that would be great

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I have a similar thing here. I am pretty sure it is not the drive itself. So I would be interested in such a thing too. I don't care what OS.

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try this it uses dos for me it was the only way i could figure out how to completely reformat the drive.

he says mac but it works for linux as well

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http://geekswithblogs.net/ilich/archive/2013/04/26/recovering-unallocated-space-of-a-usb-flash-drive.aspx

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thanks man, that is the exact thing I need

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Gotta use diskpart and clean the disk.

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Open GParted and make a fresh partition table. msdos is the one you want but change it to something else. After that change it to MSDOS unless it doesn't clear anything. If it doesn't clear, bounce between deleting all partitions and clearing the partition table. Eventually the memory controller will flash itself when it fills up and it'll knock it off. Otherwise something on the USB is fried.

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