Disk Management's Delete Partition is not applicable or highlighted in order for me to delete flash disk's FAT

Question

I would like to thank everyone who's tried to help me remove Hurri also known as Boot Malmo virus from my flash disk. However, removing FAT32 from my flash is impossible coz "Delete Partition" is not applicable. Delete Partition is there but not highlited or activated. Clicking on it doesn't do anything. Format, does the formatting but retains the old FAT. Available FATs when Format is selected are FAT & FAT32. NTFS is not available although my Hard disk has NTFS partition & clean from the virus.

Answer 1

Most USB drives use FAT32 by default. You don't need to use the Disk Management Tools.
Copy all files from USB to a folder on the desktop. Then, remove the USB drive, and run all malware tests, to find the infected file in the desktop USB file folder and remove any malware.

Then, insert the USB drive and open My Computer and right-click on your USB Drive. Choose format, use FAT32 and format it.

Then, copy all malware free files back to the USB drive from the desktop.

Answer 2

In My Computer, right click flash drive icon and select Format. If NTFS is not there, right click drive, Properties, Hardware Tab, select flash drive and Properties, Policies Tab and select Optimize For Performance. Then try Format again. These procedures do not appear to change formatting options in Disk Management and are for WinXP.