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Question

usb not taking all files , space enough

Jan 28, 2015 3:52PM PST

I bought a 4gb usb flash disk and tried to format it will all systems ( fat 32, ntfs, fat 32(default) and exFat), it only take 467mb files and says it is full. I have formatted it over and over with all formats but no joy., who can tell me what to do.Iam using windows 7 os.
Thanks
Cleopas Hlubi

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Re: USB stick full
Jan 28, 2015 4:18PM PST

- What does Windows disk management say about that device?
- What does chkdsk (run from the command prompt) say about that device?

Kees

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I wonder.
Jan 29, 2015 12:09AM PST

HOW MANY FILES in the top folder? (not MB but how many)

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you are doing nothing wrong
Jan 29, 2015 8:49PM PST

Please google "Fake Flash"