Pendrive showing less storage ? Only few MB or GB available to use ? Pendrive corrupt fix

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Pendrive showing less storage ? Only few MB or GB available to use ? This article will help you fix the issue.


 


 

I first ran into this problem when I was creating a windows 10 bootable pendrive.

I had a pendrive of 8 gb of which only 2.75 gb is usable.

Here’s a fix :

We need to open disk management tool

You can right click on the windows icon on bottom right and select disk management

OR

Open control panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk management

OR

Search for disk management and select Create and delete hard disk partition.

Here we can see the actual storage of the drive as well as all available partitions.

 

My pendrive was divided into 3 partitions of which 4.74GB space was unallocated.

which means 4.74GB of space is wasted that too for nothing.



We need to delete all this partitions and combine it to a single 7.(something) GB partition

For that we will use diskpart tool of windows.

(You can delete partitions from disk management tool but you will need to delete individual partitions)

Open command prompt

in command prompt window type diskpart


 

DISKPART is a utility in windows to manage drives and partitions.

now in disk part window type : list disk

you can now see all the storage devices connected to your computer

in my case there are two

First one is my computer hard drive

and second is the corrupted pendrive.

now type SELECT DISK <disk number>


 

in my case its disk 1 with 8GB of space.

once we have select the drive we need to type : clean

now we are done with the command part

For next step we need to open disk management tool again.

here we can see that unlike before the whole partition is unallocated.

 Now we need to make a partition of our whole pendrive.

Right click on the empty partition and select new simple volume

 


now hit next until the end.

Once you have finished within few seconds your pendrive will be ready to use in full capacity

 I hope this article was helpful to you

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