Author Topic: My USB drive lost capacity? (Read 1268 times)

Reb · « **on:** February 03, 2010, 12:59:13 PM »

A while ago I bought a USB drive, with 8 or 16GB capacity, I don't really remember.
I unsuccessfully tried to make it boot my computer with the Chromium operating system.

Now, a few months later, when I check the USB drive, it says it only has 950MB capacity.
Where did the rest go? How can I restore it?

Eric P · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:02:44 PM »

this oddly happens with my usb drives when i delete files from MAC

what i have to do is go to a windows machine and show hidden files and then delete the hidden directory "trashed"

then my full capacity is restored. I haven't dicked around enough to find out how to display "hidden" directories in OSX

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:03:39 PM »

Yeah, was gonna say to check the hidden files in case you stashed some porn or something on there and forgot

Reb · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:08:26 PM »

Sounded good, doesn't seem to be anything there. I switched on the "show hidden files and folders" thing.

Eric P · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:14:19 PM »

yeah then i dunno

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:44:31 PM »

did you try to format it?

tehjaybo · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:55:30 PM »

Try this: Go into the disk management window. Easiest way I know to do it is to right click "My Computer", click Manage. Then click "Disk Management".

You should be able to see the sizes of every attached drive.

tehjaybo · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2010, 01:55:54 PM »

And for the love of god format that shit to NTFS instead of FAT32.

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:11:19 PM »

Quote from: tehjaybo on February 03, 2010, 01:55:54 PM

And for the love of god format that shit to NTFS instead of FAT32.

I converted my external to FAT32 cuz the shitty 360 doesn't support NTFS lol

Raban · « **Reply #9 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:12:20 PM »

Get PartitionMagic, it's possible the drive has multiple partitions, with the alternative one only being accessible through boot or some shit. Who knows, really.

Reb · « **Reply #10 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:31:22 PM »

tehjaybo wins, Raban is also right, it's split in 4 partitions with the biggest one unallocated.

Raban · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:41:26 PM »

Quote from: Rebiak on February 03, 2010, 02:31:22 PM

tehjaybo wins, Raban is also right, it's split in 4 partitions with the biggest one unallocated.

How the hell did you manage to do this is what I'm wondering.

Reb · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2010, 02:45:02 PM »

I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...

Raban · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2010, 03:01:45 PM »

Quote from: Rebiak on February 03, 2010, 02:45:02 PM

I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...

tehjaybo · « **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2010, 03:22:54 PM »

Quote from: Rebiak on February 03, 2010, 02:45:02 PM

I dunno man, I was fucking around with partition magic at some point to make a bootable USB drive...

Good jon.

Reb · « **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2010, 04:44:35 PM »

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2010, 01:29:20 AM »

well, take some consolation in the fact that it could have gone much, much MUCH worse

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2010, 01:30:30 AM »

Seriously, Partition Magic may look like a nice, modern app...but it's actually a snarling primeval beast from the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You can totally fuck your PC up with a few stray clicks if you're not sure what you're doing.

Mupepe · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2010, 04:53:42 PM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on February 04, 2010, 01:30:30 AM

Seriously, Partition Magic may look like a nice, modern app...but it's actually a snarling primeval beast from the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You can totally fuck your PC up with a few stray clicks if you're not sure what you're doing.

I did that to my brother's PC that had Windows 98 on it a long time ago. Oddly enough, I deleted the partition and with windows and we lost all that and then when I rebooted I discovered a partition with Windows 3.1... because that's what it booted up in :'(

Powerslave · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2010, 05:38:53 PM »

your USB drive loses capacity because you're gay Rebiak

Bildi · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2010, 07:59:11 PM »

Take it easy with the technical terms nerd, some of us didn't go to Harvard.

Powerslave · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2010, 12:44:29 PM »

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Author Topic: My USB drive lost capacity? (Read 1268 times)