Several readers of our blog TS, sent me this problem that their pen drive is showing them less space than the actual. This problem was faced by one of our readers recently that I decided to write a solution for it.
The problem was that despite being the 4GB capacity drive, it showed only 900 MB of free space and was not storing data more than this. Even on formatting the drive, it could store only 900 MB of data only. If you are also facing the similar issue then here are the two solutions that you should try to make your drive work fine again.
Note: Data in the drive will be lost.
First Solution:
1. Plug in your pen drive
2. Type diskmgmt.msc in Run box to open Disk Management.
3. Select your drive’s partition.
4. Right click on it and select the option of “Delete Volume” in it.
5. This will delete the memory space allocated and free up the total space.
6. Now in the empty space created again right click and select “Create Volume” to create the space.
7. Select the file system and format the partition to be able to use it again.
Second Solution:
If you are unsure of the first solution or if it doesn’t work for you then try using this format utility called HP Format Disk Utility which is actually a low level format utility.
Use this utility to format the drive and it shall be working again normally.
Drop a comment below for which solution worked for you.
ok , none of them worked, i had an old 256 MB memory card, i don’t really know what happened to it but its now only 58 MB,
i tried both ways.the second didn’t work.the first> i didn’t find that “delete Volume” enabled, it was greyed out. and it was the same for another kingston usb drive
any other suggestions?
i tried 1 st step but delete volume is not there
none of them worked, i had i have sandisk 4GB pendrive , i don’t really know what happened to it but its now only 16 MB,
i tried both ways.the second didn’t work.the first> i didn’t find that “delete Volume” enabled, it was greyed out. and
and it coud not compleate low level format because of error
“smaller then 65535 sector”
please help me…. n reply
i can transfer the data in to my pen drive but whn i insert it in some other PC it shows that the file i have transferred in much much smaller than it’s size..
i.e. if i transfer a folder of 550 MB it only shows 325 MB..
By any chance is there any solution for such prblm?
I have tried 1st and 2nd option but it is not possible to format the pendrive showing lesser memory than actual memory
MY 2GB memory card has been reduced in 45 mb .Everytime I insterted it it need to be format.but after formatting it is also 45mb.When i opened it it contains for file which couldn’t be deleted.these files are high in siza.
plz help me
the delete volume was greyed out and the second one didn’t work.there is only 4.85 MB in my pen drive while it is actually 8 GB.please help me.Thank you in advance.
thanx the drive is working proerly used 2nd option as the first option didnt showed delete volume when right clicked the drive any ways thanx a lot
2nd option is worked for me thanks
MY 2GB memory card has been reduced
in 45 mb .Everytime I insterted it it
need to be format.but after formatting
it is also 45mb.When i opened it it
contains for file which couldn’t be
deleted.these files are high in siza.
plz help me
We suggest you to try the second solution, as only low level format can solve the issue and fix the drive.
hi again, man this second option says that the device media is write protected!!what to do now??please help me
2nd one perfectly worked.
Problem i had
I have a 4gb hp v220w. But for some reason it was showing as 97mb.
Formatting did not work.
First solution did not work.
Second solution worked perfectly
3.72gb now.
Thank you so much.
2nd option works thanks a lot……….
2nd method will work for all hp pendrives………….thanks a lot…!!!it helped me.
try BOOTICE….
These two processes are useless,I did not find any delete volume option as it was enabled . Is there any option else to solve the problem.
The first solution did not work for me, as I had the “Delete volume” option greyed out.
The second solution did the trick. Thank you!
Thanks a lot it worked for me…