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Question

How do I delete the "backup" portion of my Kingston 32GB USB

May 29, 2016 9:57PM PDT

I recently purchased a kingston 32GB to download a game since I don't have enough space on my Mac's hard drive. Since the game is 31GB, I thought 32 would work. But it seems that I have only 30.98GB's free on the USB drive since the rest is being taken up by its standard 'backup' part. Is there a way to delete this since I have no use for it so I can use all of the 32 GB space? My OS is X El Capitan. Thanks guys!

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Try disk utility.
May 30, 2016 12:00AM PDT
http://www.macworld.com/article/2987201/operating-systems/hands-on-with-disk-utility-in-el-capitan-tool-for-storage-devices-gets-a-facelift.html

It might depend what a 'part' is, but since I don't have that stick, I can't have a look.

However, most downloads are just setup programs. When you run them to install the game, usually it needs the double amount of disk space for the installed program, or with games, at least the same. So if you can't store the setup program on your hard disk, I wonder if you can install the program.
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Off topic
May 30, 2016 1:50AM PDT

I have no idea how big your mac hdd is but if you don't have 32GB of free space perhaps it's time to do some serious cleaning/archiving or think about a hdd upgrade.

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Format USB drive
May 31, 2016 12:02AM PDT

Normally you won't get as same size as it claims in any kind of storage device because computer has different arithmetic comparing to manufacturers. In computer system, it counts 1 MB =1024 KB, 1 GB= 1024 MB. But manufacturers count 1 MB=1000 KB,1 GB=1000 MB.
Format the USB drive to see if you can get more disk space.