1G USB drive only showing 3meg.
 

I have a 1G USB drive that was given to me, but when I try to use it,
it only shows only having 3 meg available. Is it somehow partitioned
to only show that available? Is there a way to 'recover' the
remaining storage to be able to use all 1G that this drive has?
Please let me know.

Thanks!!

Re: 1G USB drive only showing 3meg.
 

<dmhinckley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1e0b37d0-3603-426c-b6b5-c113da581097@z17g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I have a 1G USB drive that was given to me, but when I try to use it,
> it only shows only having 3 meg available. Is it somehow partitioned
> to only show that available? Is there a way to 'recover' the
> remaining storage to be able to use all 1G that this drive has?
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks!!


If you are running Win2k, XP or Vista
just go into disk management and have a look at the drive.
you may have to delete what's there and re-create a partition using the
whole drive

Re: 1G USB drive only showing 3meg.
 

dmhinckley@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a 1G USB drive that was given to me, but when I try to use it,
> it only shows only having 3 meg available. Is it somehow partitioned
> to only show that available? Is there a way to 'recover' the
> remaining storage to be able to use all 1G that this drive has?
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks!!
Right click the drive in My Computer and choose format. Should restore
it to default.

Re: 1G USB drive only showing 3meg.
 

On Feb 20, 5:05*am, "u...@domain.tld" <u...@domain.tld> wrote:
> dmhinck...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I have a 1G USB drive that was given to me, but when I try to use it,
> > it only shows only having 3 meg available. *Is it somehow partitioned
> > to only show that available? *Is there a way to 'recover' the
> > remaining storage to be able to use all 1G that this drive has?
> > Please let me know.
>
> > Thanks!!
>
> Right click the drive in My Computer and choose format. Should restore
> it to default.

I have tried both options, but it still only shows 3meg. Either the
drive really only has 3 meg for some reason, or somehow it is hidden.
It was originally given to my friend by his company that had pre-
loaded some test software for taxes, but when he deleted the software,
only 3 meg showed as available. It is the wierdest thing since it is
marked by Verbatim as a 1GB drive. Anyways, I am at a loss on this
one. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Thanks!!

Re: 1G USB drive only showing 3meg.
 

Click on the option show hidden folders or show hidden files.

dmhinckley@gmail.com wrote:

> On Feb 20, 5:05 am, "u...@domain.tld" <u...@domain.tld> wrote:
> > dmhinck...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I have a 1G USB drive that was given to me, but when I try to use it,
> > > it only shows only having 3 meg available. Is it somehow partitioned
> > > to only show that available? Is there a way to 'recover' the
> > > remaining storage to be able to use all 1G that this drive has?
> > > Please let me know.
> >
> > > Thanks!!
> >
> > Right click the drive in My Computer and choose format. Should restore
> > it to default.
>
> I have tried both options, but it still only shows 3meg. Either the
> drive really only has 3 meg for some reason, or somehow it is hidden.
> It was originally given to my friend by his company that had pre-
> loaded some test software for taxes, but when he deleted the software,
> only 3 meg showed as available. It is the wierdest thing since it is
> marked by Verbatim as a 1GB drive. Anyways, I am at a loss on this
> one. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them.
>
> Thanks!!

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