[dba-Tech] USB Memory stick lost space!

I don't remember if you can do in on a usb flash drive, but did you maybe change the type of formatting used?  Like the old DOS format to NTFS?





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From: John Bartow <john at winhaven.net>
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Fri, March 26, 2010 6:37:58 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] USB Memory stick lost space!

I can see that but it was always reported as 16 before this incident. A
Windows Update? ;o)

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:11 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] USB Memory stick lost space!

There's "GB" and there's "GB" depending on who you ask.

Disk manufacturers always use 1000^3 (a gigabyte by definition) when
calculating GB, 

Windows uses 1024^3 (technically a gibibyte). 

Your manufacturer's 16 GB is only equivalent to 15 of Microsoft's


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte for all the gory details.

-- 
Stuart


On 26 Mar 2010 at 2:30, John Bartow wrote:

> My 16 GB Centon USB Memory Stick lost all of its data today.
>  
> I Used the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to reformat it an dit appeared
to
> work but now I have only 15 GB of space available.
>  
> Any ideas?
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