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Why
USB drive lose space?
When
trying to use your USB drive, you plug it in your computer and open My
Computer, only to find that much space on the USB drive is lost, leaving only a
few megabytes available free space. Then you open Disk Management, which is a
Windows built-in utility, to see what really happens to your USB drive. You
will find out that the lost space is shown as unallocated. Before you manage to
recover unallocated space on the USB drive, you may want to know how this
happened. The lost space on USB drive often occurs after trying to burn a
system to the USB drive. Some operating system (OS), such as Chrome OS and
Linux, will change the partition system of your removable device, so there will
be little free space on your USB drive. Using some third party software inappropriately
or an unsuccessful formatting may also cause inaccessible portion on your USB
drive, which is shown as unallocated space.
How to use the unallocated space?
When
this situation happens to you, there is no need to worry, because there are
many ways to solve the USB drive showing less space error. The most simple and
effective method is using Disk Management. In case you delete something
essential to your system, Disk Management cannot delete or format some system
related files, so you may find there is no way to put the unallocated space in
use. Then you can switch to another tool named Diskpart that can definitely
help you to reclaim the lost space on your USB drive. Before you get started,
backup data because incorrectly operations with Diskpart may cause permanently
data loss.
Step
1: connect the USB drive you are having a problem with to your computer, and
type “diskpart” in the Run dialog or search box, and press Enter to open
Diskpart utility.
Step 2: Run "list disk" command to display all the online
disks with a specific disk number on your computer.
Step 3: Run "select
disk <disk number>" to select the USB drive. From here, the disk
number of the USB drive is 2, so just type "select disk 2" command.
Step 4: Type
"clean" to delete all volumes and partitions on the selected disk,
which is the USB drive from here.
Step 5: type "create
partition primary" to create a primary partition. If you want to create
more than one partition on the USB drive, you specify the partition size
referring to the following syntax: create partition primary [size=n]. For
example, to create a 3000MB partition, run this command "create partition
primary size=3000".
After a little while, Diskpart will succeed in create a partition. Then you can format unallocated space on your USB drive easily. Since this method involves complete deletion of your USB drive and all the operations cannot be canceled or undone, be extra careful while you do it. If you are not familiar with Diskpart, you can also use a free partition manager with a clear interface to do this.
1. Go to MY computer RIght click ON Select manage 2.Select disk management 3 Select Your removable disk ,Right click on it , select new simple volume and format it ,
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