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Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« on: October 31, 2010, 05:51:41 pm »
Here's a shot of the properties panel (from the Microsoft Computer Management thing) for one of my thumb drives:



So basically, this is my 4 GB thumb drive. As expected, it says it has 3824 MB capacity (essentially 4 GB). But underneath that, it says I only have 950 MB of "unallocated space," even though none of it is reserved. And look at this:



Apparently, that's all I've got left. So in essence, I have a 1 GB thumb drive now. I've used it before, though, and it's always worked fine with the full 4 GB, but now I can't get that extra 3 GB no matter what I do. I've already tried formatting it (as FAT, FAT32, and NTFS), I've uninstalled and reinstalled the USB driver, but I still can't get the mem back. The 1 GB I have left works fine, but it's really a waste, so any ideas?

The most probable reason I can see for why it suddenly lost 3 GB is that I used it once to boot and run Ubuntu (10.04) with 3 GB persistency, but I have no idea how that would change it so much...

Some extra info in case you're interested: It's a Kingston DataTraveler G2 with 4 GB storage, and I'm running on Windows Vista. Gonna try it in Linux later (running on another thumb drive).




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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 05:54:20 pm »
Looks like you've partitioned it.  If you can get to linux, tell us what it has to say about it.

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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 06:21:35 pm »
Opened it up ... and yeah, it got partitioned. There's one drive called "C-ROOT" containing all the files from the previous Ubuntu booting thing, and a 996-MB filesystem. I'll try changing that :P

EDIT: Yeah, just reformatted it with Disk Utility. What should I put for Scheme? I selected Master Boot Record, but I really have no idea what that is :P

EDIT2: Oh, well that was ... depressingly easy. Thanks, though.
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 09:03:22 pm »
You don't need to use Linux, actually. Windows has the capacity to manage partitions. ;)
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Something to the effect of "Disk Management"
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 09:15:25 pm »
What are partitions and such? Never heard of that.
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 09:18:11 pm »
Partitions allow you to have more than one file system on one physical disk :). All file systems are contained in a partition, but not all partitions contain a file system (e.g. swap partitions on unix/linux)
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 09:20:05 pm »
Ah ok, I think I get it.
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2010, 09:22:54 pm »
If you have Windows and go to where I directed, you can see the partitions :)
Just don't mess with them :P
Also, Windows 7 (and maybe Vista and earlier) has the... interesting... ability to resize the partition Windows is on as you are running Windows. I have used it (to create space for Linux) and it seems to work :)
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Re: Pretty sure there's something wrong here...
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2010, 09:36:36 pm »
Yeah, that's what I did earlier, but I didn't see any tool to manage partitions, so I had to use Linux.