pen drive shows only 2gb instead of 16gb!

[anachronycx]

weirdest think happened. i was using a software hddregenerator and i made a bootable usb pen drive using it . But after the software formatted the pen drive ,now the total space is shown as 1.91 GB instead of the original 14.8 GB. How do i bring my pen drive to its original size. Formatting again dosent work !!

 

[richyrichuk]

what does disk managment show?

right click computer>manage>disk management>

 

[anachronycx]

it is showing 1.9GB as well . all was well before the format. what should i do?

 

[Zepher]

What brand is it and how long have you had it?
Reason I ask is if it is brand new, you may have gotten a fake high capacity flash drive.

 

[Dwarf]

Try following this Tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html

Omit Step 10 and finish with Step 16. Note that Step 7 may take some time to complete. Please be patient. You might be better of omitting the quick option in Step 11 (in other words, just use format fs=ntfs).

 

[FliGi7]

What brand is it and how long have you had it?
Reason I ask is if it is brand new, you may have gotten a fake high capacity flash drive.

This is a valid concern.

You might want to download this to validate the drive's actual capacity:

H2testw Checks Damaged USB / SD Card For Read and Write Errors

 

[anachronycx]

figured it out fellas . apparently the software used to make it a bootable usb had put a cap on its maximum size and made it completely undetectable to other formatting utilities . A small button "reset flash drive" did the trick. Even Kingston Support had no idea.
thankyou all for helping

 

[Dwarf]

Glad you've resolved your problem. Quite why a cap would be put on the size by the software in question is a mystery.

 

[anachronycx]

Glad you've resolved your problem. Quite why a cap would be put on the size by the software in question is a mystery.

dont know it for sure but the software uses only a FAT partition to boot in DOS mode and perhaps 2gb is max that could be allocated

 

[guptarg92]

how i can reset my pendrive???? plss help me.. my 4 gb pendrive showing 500 mb size only..!!!

 

[Smurf2bleach]

Open a run command
Type cmd and press enter
Type diskpart press enter and select continue or allow if UAC shows up
Type list disk press enter and the pen drive should be the highest number or should show up as 16gb
Type select disk x (x being the number of you pen drive) press enter
Type clean (note this will erase everything on the pen drive) press enter
Once completed open a run command and type disk management then press enter
Find the pen drive in the list which should have unallocated space and right click and format the drive
this should hopefully fix your problem

 

[iamcami]

figured it out fellas . apparently the software used to make it a bootable usb had put a cap on its maximum size and made it completely undetectable to other formatting utilities . A small button "reset flash drive" did the trick. Even Kingston Support had no idea.
thankyou all for helping

same problem here. where is this small button you speak of?

edit found it, its in the hdd regen software

 

[jumanji]

Download HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - CNET Download.com , run it as administrator and format your flash drive.

In most cases it will regain the "lost space" which Windows does not see or format.

 

[iamcami]

figured it out fellas . apparently the software used to make it a bootable usb had put a cap on its maximum size and made it completely undetectable to other formatting utilities . A small button "reset flash drive" did the trick. Even Kingston Support had no idea.
thankyou all for helping

same problem here. where is this small button you speak of?

edit found it, its in the hdd regen software

Thanks though.

 

[grbo75]

Open a run command
Type cmd and press enter
Type diskpart press enter and select continue or allow if UAC shows up
Type list disk press enter and the pen drive should be the highest number or should show up as 16gb
Type select disk x (x being the number of you pen drive) press enter
Type clean (note this will erase everything on the pen drive) press enter
Once completed open a run command and type disk management then press enter
Find the pen drive in the list which should have unallocated space and right click and format the drive
this should hopefully fix your problem

THANKS MAN! IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM! I finally have my USB back

 

[Deepakprem]

Pendrive shows 6.94gb instead of 16gb

I know everytime when we fromat there will be some loss of space, but mine gone from 13gb to 6.93gb. I have strondium 16gb pendrive. I used their tool to correct the error.
Help me.

 

[hamdanameen]

I have same problem "Dwarf" reply with the link help a lot
i have recovered my 16 gb pen drive thanks..........

 

[vinayakdhondge]

it worked

hey man that was great... i just used the software that i used to boot os on my usb drive.... and i got back on 16 gb from 2gb.... Thanks u man.... i was afraid that it will not recover and i have to replace it from company..... but it worked thanks