MISSING SPACE IN THUMB DRIVE

Using unpartioned space in thumb drive...

Recently I download the mandriva 2010 ISO from on of the mandriva mirrors..Luckily it was a hybrid ISO that I could use in thumb drive. I downloaded a tool called Mandriva Seed which helped me to boot the image from thumb.Installation was successfull and I must admit the
distro is damn sexy..

But the problem came when i tried to format the thumb drive.Suprisingly only a 690 MB was available for me to format.Where did the rest 3.4GB disappear...??????

I checked the disk management utility provided by MS winxp.Only one active partition was there in thumb drive.Rest of 3.4 GB was shown as unallocated free space.My thumb was new San disk Cruzer which i bought 2 days ago.I donno wanna defigure it.So i downloaded a tool called HDD low level format tool from hddguru.com and my issue was fixed.

This is a great tool and its quite handy for formatting harddisks too.

So i hope all will give it a try when needed :D