Missing gigabytes on USB

[Xeno26]

I have a USB that I had been using as a bootable drive and it had been formatted multiple times, however when I tried to use it as a normal thumb drive (after reformatting it again) it claimed to only have about 3gb (empty) when the USB is actually 32gb. I looked through the properties and every where else I could think of but I couldn't figure what exactly I needed to do to regain those 29gbs. I would rather not buy another one so any ideas are welcomed

[TrigrH]

format NTFS

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

It's probably the way that your drive was formatted before. Use SD Card Formatter to format and reclaim the available space. This is what I use when dealing with drives I've formatted for Macs. It works for flash drives, it's not just for SD cards.

 

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

[Xeno26]

3 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

format NTFS

It is currently formatted for NTFS

[Xeno26]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's probably the way that your drive was formatted before. Use SD Card Formatter to format and reclaim the available space. This is what I use when dealing with drives I've formatted for Macs. It works for flash drives, it's not just for SD cards.

 

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

I will try it, thanks.

[Xeno26]

5 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's probably the way that your drive was formatted before. Use SD Card Formatter to format and reclaim the available space. This is what I use when dealing with drives I've formatted for Macs. It works for flash drives, it's not just for SD cards.

 

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

That worked great, thank you!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, Xeno26 said:

That worked great, thank you!

Glad to help. Cheers!