How to format a USB Flash drive

[rkent57]

I have A 256 GB FLASH DRIVE THAT I USED TO MAKE A RECOVERY DRIVE FROM.

ONCE THE PROGRAM WAS READY TO LOAD THE FILES IT STATED MAKE SURE THE DRIVE HAS AT LEAST 16 GB OF SPACE TO MAKE THE RECOVERY DRIVE AND SELECT START TO FORMAT THE DRIVE SO THE FILES CAN THEN BE EXTRACTED AND LOADED TO THE FLASH DRIVE.

ALL WAS GENERATED WITHOUT INCIDENT HOWEVER...

I LATER FOUND A 16 GB DRIVE AND ELECTED TO RETURN MY 256 GB FLASH DRIVE BACK TO IT'S ORIGINAL CAPACITY...WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO FORMAT MY 256 GB FLASH DRIVE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL NTFS FORMAT, IT FORMATTED ALRIGHT BUT WILL ONLY SHOW THE DRIVE CAPACITY NOW AS 28 GB!!! WTF???

HOW DO I GET THE FLASH DRIVE BACK TO SHOWING THE ORIGINAL 256GB CAPACITY?

PLS ADVISE IF YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM...

RON

rkent57@yahoo.com

[rkent57]

I have A 256 GB FLASH DRIVE THAT I USED TO MAKE A RECOVERY DRIVE FROM.

ONCE THE PROGRAM WAS READY TO LOAD THE FILES IT STATED MAKE SURE THE DRIVE HAS AT LEAST 16 GB OF SPACE TO MAKE THE RECOVERY DRIVE AND SELECT START TO FORMAT THE DRIVE SO THE FILES CAN THEN BE EXTRACTED AND LOADED TO THE FLASH DRIVE.

ALL WAS GENERATED WITHOUT INCIDENT HOWEVER...

I LATER FOUND A 16 GB DRIVE AND ELECTED TO RETURN MY 256 GB FLASH DRIVE BACK TO IT'S ORIGINAL CAPACITY...WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO FORMAT MY 256 GB FLASH DRIVE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL NTFS FORMAT, IT FORMATTED ALRIGHT BUT WILL ONLY SHOW THE DRIVE CAPACITY NOW AS 28 GB!!! WTF???

HOW DO I GET THE FLASH DRIVE BACK TO SHOWING THE ORIGINAL 256GB CAPACITY?

PLS ADVISE IF YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM...

RON

use "partition guru" to fix format problems

Use the major geeks site to get the program.

Worked great for me!!!


Ron

[Matrix]

You can use a free partition manager software to format your USB.

[Lewis-H]

NTFS is ideal for internal drives, while exFAT is generally ideal for flash drives. Both of them have no realistic file-size or partition-size limits. If storage devices are not compatible with NTFS file system and you don't want to limited by FAT32, you can choose exFAT file system.