I've tried Googling an answer to this but having no luck so thought I'd ask a football club forum for help! Basically, I put a 16GB USB stick in a Macbook and it wanted to format it first, fair enough, I put the files on I wanted but then I noticed it is now only showing a capacity of something like 4.67GB. I've put it back in the Windows PC and tried to reformat but it still only recognises the lower capacity? Anyone know what I can do?
Ha ha cheers. It was only a tenner and I've still got two more unopened in a packet but they don't seem to last me two minutes before they break so was just trying to squeeze a bit more life out of this one.
Is it a knock-off forgery. They say a big memory on the outside, then when input it, it shows what the actual memory is. I'd be contacting where I'd got it from, hush, hush say no more
ebay? I bought some Samsung 8GB ones which turned out to be 2GB The capacity the drive believes it has is held in the firmware. With the right kit you can write new firmware to the drive so basically, someone bought loads of 2GB drives, reprogrammed them to believe 8GB and sold them as such. They apparently worked fine and I left positive feedback. However, once you tried to write more than 2GB to them it failed with a write error, since the additional 6Gb simply didn't exist. Also, once you reformat them, the formatting fails at the end of the actual memory. The OS recognises this and ends the formatted partition there. Thus they start showing up their real capacity. This sounds very similar to what you're seeing.
It's a legit one, they were on offer on Ebuyer so I bought four and I've been using it for a few weeks with 16GB capacity (well, near enough), it's just since OSX decided it wanted to be reformatted. Yeah mate, tried all the different options on the drop down but the capacity remains the same. I hardly ever need 16GB like it's just annoying.
Comes up with this in Winders but no option to format the available space or extend it, the options to do so are greyed out. Proper gay.
Assuming the drive is empty, can you delete the partition F:, then create a new partition using all the unallocated space?
Tried them all to be honest, think it's FAT32 at minute, I've got to the partition resizing thing but the options to delete/extend or whatever are greyed out. It's not a big deal, I'm sure I'll live.
try plugging it in, open command prompt and type diskpart then list disk find your flash drive then type Select disk (whatever number it is) eg select disk 2 when your disk is selected type clean this will wipe your flash drive and any partitions. you can then format it or go to disk manager and allocate all the space / create a new partition or volume, whatever
Cheers mate, I'll try that tomorrow. Had a few glasses of wine so I'll probably end up wiping one of my main hard drives if I do it now!
Go Here :- http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ Download & install the software (its free) , run the software & choose your flash drive, when its done remove from your p.c. & reinsert, it will ask you to format the drive , format as NTFS. Done.
So it seems that Macs are not quite as brilliant as you lot have been going on about then !!! Never had any problem like this with my windows machines !!!
I use both mate, simply because I had a license for the Mac version of some expensive Adobe software given to me in my last job so I just use it for Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks. I really couldn't imagine using the Mac for everything, they are very overrated but do the basic stuff well but can be very frustrating for a seasoned windows user as there are just so many things which aren't there, it's similar to using Linux. The only reason I got a new Mac is because they hold their value so well, sold my old laptop and only had to put £250 to to get a brand new one with an SSD and retina display - the screen res on it is fantastic to be honest, just a shame the OS is so limited.
