[SOLVED] SanDisk Ultra 64GB USB drive is displaying only 4MB capacity

[realghostbuster]

Hi there,

I bought a SanDisk Ultra 64GB a few months ago on Amazon. Here is the item listing: https://ibb.co/3sFxP8V

I remember that I used this USB drive in an attempt to install Ubuntu on my system(which I ultimately failed at) and now the USB key only displays a maximum capacity of 4MB approx which you can see here: https://ibb.co/wNkH0jv

I've tried to format the USB drive but that does nothing to restore the drives original capacity. I'm just wondering could somebody help with my issue?

Kind regards

 

[logainofhades]

See what it gives you, in disk management, for a value. It might need formatted that way.

 

[realghostbuster]

See what it gives you, in disk management, for a value. It might need formatted that way.

It gives me the same storage space of 4MB in Disk Management as you can see here: https://ibb.co/hK8wG51

And I've tried formatting it through Disk Management via FAT and NTFS and it still shows 4MB as the storage capacity.

 

[logainofhades]

No, it is showing you have 57.30 GB, but most of it is unallocated. The problem is the format of the 4MB partition. You need to delete it, which should then show the whole drive as unallocated, which will then allow you to create a new volume, and format it with whatever file format options it gives you, that will work with a volume of that size.

 

[realghostbuster]

No, it is showing you have 57.30 GB, but most of it is unallocated. The problem is the format of the 4MB partition. You need to delete it, which should then show the whole drive as unallocated, which will then allow you to create a new volume, and format it with whatever file format options it gives you, that will work with a volume of that size.

Cool that's great.

I've deleted the 4MB and the rest of the space freed up. I'm trying to format the drive at the moment and I'm wondering could you help me select the appropriate options shown here: https://ibb.co/7b7JtVD

Will I just leave the options as they are and click on "Start"?

 

[velocityg4]

Cool that's great.

I've deleted the 4MB and the rest of the space freed up. I'm trying to format the drive at the moment and I'm wondering could you help me select the appropriate options shown here: https://ibb.co/7b7JtVD

Will I just leave the options as they are and click on "Start"?

That all looks good. ExFAT is universal. Making it my preference. You could make it NTFS. But I don't see the point for flash drives.

 

[logainofhades]

I would use the default.

 

[realghostbuster]

I would use the default.

Perfect. Thanks for your help