Question PNY Flash Drive 128GB Showing 115GB; 24MB Unallocated

[SingBlueSilver]

Hi all:

I just popped in a new flash drive, PNY Turbo Attache' 3.0 128 GB, to use for image backups. Windows 10 Pro shows it as 115 GB.

I'm just checking to see if this -- https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...howing-115gb-available.2923938/#post-18441592
-- is still the best answer and if I should just let it be. (I know that Sandisk/PNY = to-may-to, to-mah-to)

If so, no problem.

In Disk Management, it shows 24 MB of unallocated space first, and then 115.44 GB FAT32 Healthy Primary Partition. I just want to make sure that the 24 MB of unallocated space isn't going to compromise the integrity of the drive, before I go backing up important stuff to the drive. And I don't want to try to "get rid of" that space without asking you good folks. I'm a little familiar with partitioning and have some good tools at my fingertips, but I'd want somebody on here to give me the okay first.

I'm also just curious as to how 24 MB has anything to do with the 13 GB discrepancy?

Many thanks and a fine Friday to all!

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us the Disk Management screencap.

But yes, what you see is almost certainly absolutely normal.

Base 2 vs Base 10.
Computer vs Human.
1024 vs 1000.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

Sorry about that!

https://imgur.com/a/d3G0oDr

View: https://imgur.com/a/d3G0oDr

 

[USAFRet]

That is just fine.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

Thank you very much for such a quick and informative answer.

(And for serving this country )

 

[USAFRet]

And, "24MB" is approx 0.02% of the total drive space.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

And, "24MB" is approx 0.02% of the total drive space.

Yes. It was just a curiosity to me, not a need, and a concern before I use the drive. Many thanks again.

 

[fzabkar]

128 GB = 119.2 GiB

 

[CountMike]

Yes. It was just a curiosity to me, not a need, and a concern before I use the drive. Many thanks again.

The drive is bootable, therefore that small partition.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Unallocated space is not a partition.
And no - the drive is not bootable.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

128 GB = 119.2 GiB

Thanks for doing the particulars for me. I thought 115 seemed way too off for the digital vs binary discrepancy.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

Unallocated space is not a partition.
And no - the drive is not bootable.

Now I'm curious. I'm tempted to put a bootable ISO like a Linux distro or partition tool on it and see if I can boot from it. That's what I want in a drive. I'm using these particular PNY drives for backups, but ultimately I'd like any flash drive to be bootable in case of SSD failure.

 

[USAFRet]

Now I'm curious. I'm tempted to put a bootable ISO like a Linux distro or partition tool on it and see if I can boot from it. That's what I want in a drive. I'm using these particular PNY drives for backups, but ultimately I'd like any flash drive to be bootable in case of SSD failure.

If you make it bootable, then yes.

In its current state, no, it is not a bootable drive.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

If you make it bootable, then yes.

In its current state, no, it is not a bootable drive.

Thanks.

 

[fzabkar]

Was the EaseUS TODO FAT32 partition pre-installed on the flash drive??