USB Flash(?) Drive Problem

[fortheloveofdog]

Hello everyone, long time no see.

I have a 128mb usb stick (flash drive?) that believes it only has 1mb of memory. Can anyone suggest a remedy? I don't know much abotu the drive, a friend gave it to me. I have another one that works just fine. Not sure of the make, I think it's a coporate own-brand one (it says www.message-pad.com on it, which is a UK call centre company).

Sorry if this topic has been discussed, I wasn't really sure what to search for... :rolleyes:


Thanks!

[Steve R Jones]

Sorry, have to ask-> When you view it in Windows Explorer do you see 127 megs of files on it?

[fortheloveofdog]

no it says 1mb as total space.

I've found out it's a Samsung Mighty Drive.

Do i need some software? I'm using win xp and win 2000 at work.

[Midknyte]

run diskmgmt.msc or rightclick my computer and click manage. look at the drive in there. you can repartition/format from there.

flash drives do drive, so it might be a bad drive.

[fortheloveofdog]

thanks for the info.

I've just tried the drive on a friend's computer, and it worked fine... just seems to be my XP machine at home... very odd. I'll give that 'manage' thing a try and report back.

Once again, thanks.

[Sterling_Aug]

It may be that your system board is not configured correctly for USB drives, or it may not have the latest BIOS installed that properly supports them.

[fortheloveofdog]

i don't think that's the problem.. i think win xp was just having a bit of a spaz. It all seems ok now....

[Sterling_Aug]

Here is a nice easy to use utility to format almost any USB jump drive.

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/compaqbusinesspcs/us/download/20306.html

[fortheloveofdog]

Thanks a lot!