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I have a 64gb flash drive, with only 200mb useable. The other part is unalocated. How can I fix this?
Nothing I have tried works

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n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Right click on the "unallocated" bit and create a new volume?

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That happened with my first Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, where 50GB was not allocated to anything and I couldn't fix it.

 

I looked it up and it said it's a factory defect, and you can't do anything to fix it. I'm sure you can do something, but it would be long and not worth it.

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Can't you right click the unallocated space and format it as a new volume?

If you can't, you can always format the drive througn the CMD and Diskpart. http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en?language=en_US

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Right click on the "unallocated" bit and create a new volume?

 

New volume. Follow the steps and create a new partition. Format it as FAT32

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n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Extend volume

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Delete the 200mb partition on the flash drive. Then format the whole thing as NTFS.

Cant, it wont let me delete it

 

Extend volume

Cant, wont let me do that

 

Extend it. If you can't, do it through command prompt

Not sure how to do that through commmand prompt

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Cant, it wont let me delete it

 

Cant, wont let me do that

 

Not sure how to do that through commmand prompt

got skype it would be easier lol

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Download mini Partition tool or easeus

 

 

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Wow that worked thanks!1!!!!!!!!!!!

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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