lesser space than original in USB after formatting ... why is it so ?

[DARK_HORSE]

why does a USB show less space then originally available after formatting!

 

[jsmithepa]

Is a conspiracy of bait and switch.

No-no-no-no. Why you can never get the advertised mileage after you bring the car home? How come your TV, when actually measured, is not quite the size they told you? How come a big Mac advertised as 2.99 and by the time you have to pay, is $3.50?

On HD, the excuse it, OVERHEAD. They are telling you, space are needed for the folders and managing components even without actual data. Like a house still occupy space with no people in it.

Bottom line is, nothing none of us can do, it is what it is.

 

[puttynene]

First run windows command line and type diskpart in the command prompt. Windows will seekk permission to run the tool. run the toll to find USB disk's number

Select the disk to work with. Select DISK NUMBER eg, DISK 2.

Then clean all volumes and partitions on the disk

Clean command will do that

Finally Create a primary partition.


You can format your disk now and I hope think works