Problem with usb stick

hey, guys gotta problem.

My usb stick appears as if he only has 200mb but it's a 1gb one. I tryed to format it but it din't chagne anything how to get back the other 800mb ??

 

no answers?

 

Are you sure that is 1000 mb?

 

yes I am I'm, using it for more than a year now and thats why I know it had 1gb

 

Have you checked if there are any hidden folders?

 

you can test another computer..

 

Hi,

did you try to format it with the HP USB Tool?

http://www.bay-wolf.com/utility/usbkey/usbmemkeyboot.zip

 

have you try scanning it?

 

What operating system do you have? If its vista it may be stealing your USB memory and using it as RAM. Have you tried looking for hidden folders?

 

I have Xp but I also checked it on my macbook it only showed 200mb and I wasn't able to figure out how to format it ....

@ blichev I'll try thx

 

Just buy another 1Gb stick and see if your computer only shows small amount of actual space. May be a setting or file attribute setting needs corrected.

 

well checked it with another usb it got nearly 2gb and 1,86 gb are showing up so there is no real problem with this one

 

maybe there is a hidden partition, try also to open it with a partion managing software like Partition Magic...

 

tryed teh hp tool doen't change anything :8 chekign the partition thing now

partition magic did'nt help either

 

Its the same problem which my friend is facing. He is having a 1 GB pen drive and few days back it started showing 700MB in spite of 980 MB. Although loss of memory was not as much as yours better you go and purchase a new one for yourself because there is no solution for this yet.

 

hm focked up I was using this one for the music in my car I gont another one to use but 200mb is not much

 

This the first time I have personal heard about USB's behaving this way. :-|