USB 16GB Showing as 5.26GB

[ItAintObeezyGaming]

I have used the USB for quite a long time. Today I formatted and deleted everything and noticed that it was only 5.26GB. I had bought the Sandisk Cruzer Edge 16GB about a year ago and I wondered why it wasn't showing up as 16GB. Can anyone help me figure out why the USB drive isn't storing as much as it used to? It worked fine until today when I saw I only had so much left.
Please help!

Thanks in advance!

 

[l1ghtm4st3r]

might have some unallocated space:

Start-> disk management

See if the drive has 'unallocated' space. Then delete all partitions and create one big one that encompasses entire drive's storage capacity.

 

[ItAintObeezyGaming]

I cant delete the F: volume to unallocated space. What should I do?

 

[l1ghtm4st3r]

Right, someone should sticky what I'm about to say.

Follow these steps please:

Open an elevated command prompt. In CMD type (without quotes):
"diskpart"
"list disk"
Now select your disk (in your case F) by typing "select disk X" where X is the number of the disk.
"list partition"
Here you may see 1 or 2 partitions:

IF YOU SEE 2:
"select partition 0"
"delete partition"
"select partition 1"
"delete partition"

IF YOU SEE 1:

Same as above but just partition 0.

IF THIS DOESN'T WORK:

"Clean" (This wipes out all the partitions)

IF CLEAN DOESN'T WORK:

"Recover"
"Clean"





If all of that doesn't work.
Man, this is beyond me.

EDIT: Forgot to add: After this point the cmd will throw up a format box. Ignore this, you need to either go back into disk management and create a "New simple volume" or do it through cmd. Then it should be working as usual.

 

[Renaldo Xhahu]

Right, someone should sticky what I'm about to say.

Follow these steps please:

Open an elevated command prompt. In CMD type (without quotes):
"diskpart"
"list disk"
Now select your disk (in your case F) by typing "select disk X" where X is the number of the disk.
"list partition"
Here you may see 1 or 2 partitions:

IF YOU SEE 2:
"select partition 0"
"delete partition"
"select partition 1"
"delete partition"

IF YOU SEE 1:

Same as above but just partition 0.

IF THIS DOESN'T WORK:

"Clean" (This wipes out all the partitions)

IF CLEAN DOESN'T WORK:

"Recover"
"Clean"





If all of that doesn't work.
Man, this is beyond me.

EDIT: Forgot to add: After this point the cmd will throw up a format box. Ignore this, you need to either go back into disk management and create a "New simple volume" or do it through cmd. Then it should be working as usual.

Thank you man. I recently had a similar problem where Disk Manager wouldn't format or delete the partitions but the method through cmd worked flawlessly for me.