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Create a partition (counterfit USB drive)

What's a good free program to create partitions with?
It's for a USB flash drive that claims to be 4 Gb when in fact it can only store 1 Gb; files written after that appear to be there but they're not acessable.
I read about this before and that it's possible to create a partition for the amount that it is and then you won't accidently put too much on it.

I didn't buy the flash drive; it was a present.
Cause I'd read about counterfit drives like this I don't think I'd have bought one. I don't know where it was bought... where I read about was China.

It's supposed to be made by Emtec according to the packaging, on the drive itself the symbol for the Emtec logo is on it but it doesn't say "Emtec" on it and the bit that says "4 Gb" is in a plain font not a modern one like on the packaging. I didn't think anything of that at first but now I know it's a fake I know to look out for things like that when buying one. I had read about drives not having the right finish to them being signs they were fakes, when I read about the fakes, but I didn't know what the drive should look like really. I would have only bought from a reputable dealer anyway. I'll ask the person that gave me the drive where they bought it from.

On the packaging it says 5 year warranty

I've kept the packaging.

Also, after deleting everything on the drive it still reads as having some space taken up on it (4 KB out of 3.89 GB) and AVG virus scan doesn't seem to work on it (it just doesn't do anything so I click Cancel). Is it dangerous?

Please take a pic of the following screen which you can access by right clicking My Computer and going to 'Manage' then 'Disk Management':

whow, 40gig. you rock.

try this,

Start run chkdsk e:
Click on OK, and let it run through, it may be a little slower due to it being a usb drive but shouldnt take to long.

AmIdYfReAk wrote:try this,

Start run chkdsk e:
Click on OK, and let it run through, it may be a little slower due to it being a usb drive but shouldnt take to long.

I did that and it closed after it ran, so I tried it from the command prompt:

chkdsk e:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume Serial Number is
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

4,186,062,848 bytes total disk space.
4,186,058,752 bytes available on disk.

4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,021,988 total allocation units on disk.
1,021,987 allocation units available on disk.

Anyway, no-one has told me a free program to make partitions. Cause, like I said, I read that that works OK.

Couldn't you just use Disc Management to partition it?

obsidian wrote:Couldn't you just use Disc Management to partition it?

I didn't know you could do that. I didn't know about Disk Management until Foo posted about it.

I did click around to see if it had that option after I took that screenshot, but didn't find it. I've found something in the Help file now so I'll see if it can do it.

It says:

To create a partition or logical drive
...
Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free space in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive.

but neither of those options are there: the only options in the right-click menu to do with partitions are "Mark Partition as Active" and "Delete Partition..." which are both greyed out.

I think you may be able to solve this by formatting the USB stick as an NTFS partition.

As for partitioning, you should be able to right-click on the bit where it says '3.91Gb FAT32' and it should let you delete the current partition (which will erase contents from the USb drive).

If it doesn't let you do this, either you're not an admin, or the OS is booting from that partition, or the swap file is on that partition, or something like that is blocking you from being able to drop the partition.

If you're on windows blister you might need to right-click then run-as a compmgmt.msc shortcut icon to get admin privs...

A 1GB flash drive is about $12. I'd toss that hunk of crap and buy something you know isn't bottom of the bin goods.

Anyway, if you can't get it done through windows utils, HP made a utility years ago for making bootable thumb drives. I've used it recently to partition/format some. It's called "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool", I'm sure you can find it. It installs under windows.

Doombrain wrote:whow, 40gig. you rock.

LOL, I remember back in the day when I only had 40 gigs. Now I have 750 gigs on 1 computer and 650 gigs on the other one.
And there's a couple 40 gig and 80 gig drives lying around here somewhere.

Doombrain wrote:whow, 40gig. you rock.

rofl what a little prat