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Windows Explorer detected wrong drive total space

Note: This is not a duplicate of: Windows explorer displaying wrong free space Windows Server 2008 r2 reports wrong hard drive free space Windows 10 reporting wrong hard disk free space Drive Space ...
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How to fix USB flash drives showing unallocated space in diskmgmt?

I have 3 USB flash drives (newly purchased, original) which were used to create bootable drives to install Zorin OS on a PC. The flashing failed for some reason, and now I have 3 USB flash drives ...
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Unable to access and format a USB drive, which is seen in Disk Management but not This PC on Window 10

I have tried steps on two posts in this superuser thread: Recovering a Partially Formatted USB Thumb Drive These are my attempts: Attempt 1: referring to user LJD200's post I ran these commands on CMD ...
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How to combine all partitions of USB flash drive?

I hope this is the right place to post this. I have an SP brand 32GB USB flash drive. When it was brand new I installed the TAILS OS on it and it seemed to create a bootable EFI system partition of ...
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USB Drive Not Working

I have a problem with my 16GB Lexar USB flash drive, similar to this. I was trying to use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to install a Windows 10 installer onto it, but the installer failed ...
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How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 32GB size back that not showing unallocated partition in manage?

I have a 32GB flash disk that only shows 8MB of it. I tested methods like "disk part commend", "check management", using best tools like BOOTICE and many others, but that only can show just 8MB! I ...
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USB drive ejects itself while formatting

I have a 32GB Toshiba USB drive. Recently I tried writing an image of chrome OS to it with balenaEtcher. It failed. Since then my drive has been unreadable on both windows 10 and Ubuntu. I have ...
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USB Flash Drive won't let me format or delete files (Windows 10) after being plugged into OSX

I seem to be having an issue with my USB Flash Drive that I can't seem to figure out. I deleted some files off my flash drive and this worked fine and passed it to my girlfriend to use on her Mac to ...
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Creating Primary partition Error

My USB is shown on disk management as "unallocated". I ran: chkdsk /f /r d: it told me that my drive is RAW type. So I tried using diskpart. My volume is shown as unusable so I selected it and ...
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Formatted USB now shows as a disk drive [duplicate]

About a year back i bought a USB from Asda that of which the manufacture is unknown. i made it a bootable USB for kali linux and done the install to a separate USB. i decide to format it as i could ...
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Missing memory on USB flash drive isn't visible with disk management [duplicate]

Just as the title says, I have a USB flash drive (16 Gb) that seems to have lost ~2 Gb. Both Windows Disk Managment and DiskPart agree that there's only 14 Gb be had, but I know it had more when I ...
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Broke(?) my USB flash drive while burning a Windows 10 ISO from Linux

I have a working Linux distribution running (Arch Linux) on my computer, I followed tutorials on burning an ISO of Windows 10 on my USB drive. Came across this answer on Ask Ubuntu: https://askubuntu....
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Bootable Linux partition alongside an NTFS partition on USB flashdrive

On a 128 GB flashdrive, in order to boot Linux from the drive I created two ext4 partitions (/ and /home, Linux installed on the root partition) and a swap partition as well as a NTFS partition that I ...
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Usb stick in system devices but not in drives after re-partitioning with BootIce

I had usb stick that was formatted as iso. Today i tried to recover it's original size (by using Bootice) and it worked ok, but now I can only see stick in System -> Disk Drives but not in Windows ...
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