I cannot access the private zone on my flash drive after formatting the public zone. Now my drive is 512mb less than what it should be.

SOURCE: how do you access the private zone when there is no icon to do so

Go to http://www.verbatim.com/support/support.cfm?open=Articles and download the V-safe software then install on your flash drive. You can unlock it using old password

SOURCE: i have a 16 gb usb store n go flash drive, divide

Formatting just deletes all information that is on a disk, so if you format a drive with two partitions on it, you're only formatting the partitions, not deleting the partition

so what you want to do is delete the partition between the two drives.. or at least make one of the partitions bigger.

in Windows 7
if you go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management > right click the partition you want to make SMALLER and click Shrink Volume, then right click the partition you want to make BIGGER and then click extend volume

you have now created a smaller partition and a larger partition

in Windows XP you're gonna need a program to do this.. if you google partitioning programs you'll find heaps, a good one that was very common was called "Partition Magic"

hope this helps