Flash Drives

[Entangle]

I recently bought a 2GB cruzer micro for school projects and a game to fit on there, When i check the properties of the USB it says "1.86gb" which is the apparent storage room. I was just wondering, if its a 2GB USB, wheres the rest?

Thanks.

[asusi]

I recently bought a 2GB cruzer micro for school projects and a game to fit on there, When i check the properties of the USB it says "1.86gb" which is the apparent storage room. I was just wondering, if its a 2GB USB, wheres the rest?

Thanks.

Your Windows has eated that

Your Drive is standard 2GB but when you format it into ntfs file system it just cashes some of that memory

[Entangle]

Dammit, i need about 100mb's for school assignments,projects and etc, and then i need 1.88gb for Diablo 2 >.>

[pr0klobster]

Or, there are utilities on the drive (I remember some format like m3 or something that used to do that) taking up the extra space.

[Blurred]

You should buy a cheap drive (like $5) And use it for school.

[Entangle]

Or, there are utilities on the drive (I remember some format like m3 or something that used to do that) taking up the extra space.

It has a program called "U3" on it, if i delete that will it help?

[chesticles]

I think thats just the interface system thingy mabob...i dunno if it needs it to run

[Squirt]

Or, there are utilities on the drive (I remember some format like m3 or something that used to do that) taking up the extra space.

It has a program called "U3" on it, if i delete that will it help?

I have the same one .

I deleted the U3 program and mine works perfectly.

I bought a 256mb one just for school assingments.

I can only play n64 roms =/

[asusi]

Or, there are utilities on the drive (I remember some format like m3 or something that used to do that) taking up the extra space.

It has a program called "U3" on it, if i delete that will it help?

not much,, that program is only 5 or 10 mb ?

[PR0METHEUS]

Or, there are utilities on the drive (I remember some format like m3 or something that used to do that) taking up the extra space.

It has a program called "U3" on it, if i delete that will it help?

Yes, you can delete all that crap on the U3 drives if you want. You can even repartition the whole thumb drive and format it to get the most use of the available space. However, as someone above mentioned, the actual file system itself (NTFS, FAT32, EXT3...) will still take up some room on the drive. Probably the only way around that is to not even have a file system and write directly to the raw drive.

There's also the issue of how the vendor (and the OS) reports the free space. Some people refer to 1 GB as 1,000 MB, others say it's 1,024 MB. So that 2 gig drive might really be 2,000,000,000 bytes, which is a bit less than 2 gigs.

[Starrie]

There's also the issue of how the vendor (and the OS) reports the free space. Some people refer to 1 GB as 1,000 MB, others say it's 1,024 MB. So that 2 gig drive might really be 2,000,000,000 bytes, which is a bit less than 2 gigs.

Yeah, that's the main reason. My 320 GB hard disk actually doesn't even have 300 GB. Its the difference between GB (x1000 factor) and GiB (x1024 factor). For ease, it is called the GB but in fact, windows uses the GiB factor, causing the difference.

[ineedhelp]

[color=#0000FF i aw on a wallmart ad a 8gb for 24.88 i wanna buy it pretty cheap[/color]