Shoutbox

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Originally posted by lizard.boy

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Originally posted by SonicSam
It's 4GB, just accept a loss, and spend the 4$ is costs for a new one

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You're missing the point. He knows it's 4GB, and he wants IT to know it's 4GB. Loss acceptance stage is complete, salvage a possibly good USB drive stage has commenced.

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exactly

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Originally posted by SonicSam
4$ is costs for a new one

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not in this country

Can't you just create a partition of 4GB on it?

or just know that even tho it says 16GB it's only 4?  I mean...ur hardly likely to forget are you?  surely there's no problem other than the fact it only fills to 4GB?

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Originally posted by djdannyp
or just know that even tho it says 16GB it's only 4?  I mean...ur hardly likely to forget are you?  surely there's no problem other than the fact it only fills to 4GB?

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it doesn't fill to 4 gigs, it fills to 16gigs then all the data after the 4th gb is lost, the reason I want to change it is due to fragmentation and the way windows writes files.
if I put 4 gigs on it, then delete 4 gigs, I still have 8gb (of non existent space) in which can write to without overwriting the first 4 gb, therefore not very functional as a drive.
( *it's not quite as straight foward as that but if I can re-flash it the reliability of the drive will go up)

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Originally posted by Jarrod
if I put 4 gigs on it, then delete 4 gigs, I still have 8gb

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But not if you create a 4GB partition on the correct sectors like Patchou suggested, or am I missing something?

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Originally posted by Menthix

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Originally posted by Jarrod
if I put 4 gigs on it, then delete 4 gigs, I still have 8gb

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But not if you create a 4GB partition on the correct sectors like Patchou suggested, or am I missing something?

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yes but

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Originally posted by Menthix
on the correct sectors

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or am I missing something?

Most likely just make sure you start at sector 0 and don't make the partition any bigger than the actual real size of the drive. If you remove all partitions first any new partition created after that will start at sector 0 AFAIK.