Bootable SD card still has small memory, even after formating

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I have an SD card which I used to run my RaspberryPi. I wanted to update the copy of raspbian on it, so I formated the card using the software from www.sdcard.com. I followed all the instructions correctly, however the size of my SD card didn't go back to it's default.

It is a 4gb SD card, which after it's spell in the RaspberryPi had shrunken to 52mb, which I understand is normal. After formatting, the size rose to 3.69gb.

This means that there is not enough space to install a new OS, so how can I make my SD card 4gb again?

Any help would be much appreciated!

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