How long does it take to format a 16GB thumb drive?

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I purchased a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer thumb drive yesterday.

I decided to format this morning to get rid of the bloat on it, but I've been sitting here for a least 30 mins and it's still going.

How long does this process usually take for 16GB thumb drive?

:mad:​
 

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Are you doing a quick format or a full format?
 

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Bill2 said:
0080900 said:
Bill2 said:
Are you doing a quick format or a full format?
Click to expand...


Full.​
Click to expand...
That'll take a while, let it run.
Click to expand...

Finished formatting, but I'm still missing at least 2GB of space, and it only shows 14GB free space available even though I'm not using any space on the thumb drive, yet.

I think I should at least 15GB available, why is this 16GB reserving over 1GB for itself?

:sarc:​
 

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If you can boot from this Thumbdrive then there is a Boot sector for the BIOS to pickup that maybe one cause
 

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0080900 said:
Bill2 said:
0080900 said:
Full.​
Click to expand...
That'll take a while, let it run.
Click to expand...

Finished formatting, but I'm still missing at least 2GB of space, and it only shows 14GB free space available even though I'm not using any space on the thumb drive, yet.​

I think I should at least 15GB available, why is this 16GB reserving over 1GB for itself?​


:sarc:​
Click to expand...
16 GB as advertised is the decimal or marketing 16 GB, used by manufacturers. Your computer reports in binary or true GB. So the true capacity is only 14.9 GB.

Some space would be taken by the files needed to make the drive usable.
 

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Also the Bigger the Drive the more Space is "Missing" in some respect E.g a 1TB Drive may be only 950GB in True Capacity form

Josh
 

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Available space on the drive varies from different formats (i.e. FAT32, NTFS, etc).
 

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