Timeline for How to fix USB flash drives showing unallocated space in diskmgmt?
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| Dec 31, 2022 at 19:45 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Overall copy edits and formatting and adding images left in the comments that are useful.
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| Dec 31, 2022 at 19:11 | answer | added | Joep van Steen | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 17:15 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | @gronostaj yes, although fake drives usually pretend a larger fake capacity than 16 GB, so gain is bigger so to speak. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 14:14 | comment | added | gronostaj | I think you may have bought fake drives. You've erased their "magic formatting" that would appear to work initially to fool you and now you're left with properly useless drives. On the flip side, now you can't put important data on them hoping that it will be retained, just to find it corrupted. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:33 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | Try this bleepingcomputer.com/download/hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool. If it doesn't work let me know. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 9:23 | answer | added | Tom Yan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 3:37 | comment | added | kartik | Hi @JoepvanSteen, thanks for replying. When it shows Unallocated in Disk Management (i.e. no simple volume exists at the moment), here's what it looks like in DMDE - first I select my drive like this & then this is how it looks like - i.postimg.cc/Dyf3ySVy/image.png. (Please let me know if I took the screenshot wrongly/missed to cover any details.) | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 21:24 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | Can you download DMDE and post screenshot of partitions TAB with 'advanced' option ticked? | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 19:46 | comment | added | kartik | Hi @TomYan, I have updated my original question and summarized it a bit. Please check... Thanks! | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 19:45 | history | edited | kartik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
summarized question
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 8:08 | history | edited | kartik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added images instead of links
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 8:05 | comment | added | Tom Yan |
Consider clean all instead of clean on one of them and see. The former will zero out the whole drive. It might take quite a long time though, especially when these drives are likely pretty slow.
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:59 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | Could you please use the site built-in image uploader? Even if you only get a link from that method it is a lot easier for people to move the images inline for you. | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:36 | answer | added | Shivam | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:22 | history | edited | kartik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added some more notes
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| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:19 | comment | added | kartik | Hi, @TomYan, thanks for replying. I've added the details of what happens when I try to create a simple volume for one of the drives in my original question above. Kindly have a look there. Thanks! | |
| Dec 18, 2022 at 7:14 | comment | added | Tom Yan | So what happen if you right click on the unallocated and e.g., create a new partition? | |
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| S Dec 18, 2022 at 6:59 | history | asked | kartik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
