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Main Forum => General Computer Support => Topic started by: Gamezertruth on July 06, 2015, 02:56:24 pm
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I bought an new 8GB USB flash drive and something wasn’t right where it not gave my a full 8GB of 8GB
it used 7.44GB free of 7.45GB so how i can to restore it of 8GB ?
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I bought an new 8GB USB flash drive and something wasn’t right where it not gave my a full 8GB of 8GB
it used 7.44GB free of 7.45GB so how i can to restore it of 8GB ?
Manufactureres sell 8,000,000,000 Byte drives as 8GB
So
7812500KB
7629MB
7.45GB
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7.45GB is all you get on an 8GB stick.
If you think that is short changed, I recently bought a 1TB external HDD which max's out at 931GB.
I think what it is, is that vendors call 1000KB=1MB instead of 1024KB=1MB and so on.
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I bought an new 8GB USB flash drive and something wasn’t right where it not gave my a full 8GB of 8GB
it used 7.44GB free of 7.45GB so how i can to restore it of 8GB ?
Manufactureres sell 8,000,000,000 Byte drives as 8GB
So
7812500KB
7629MB
7.45GB
aha You seem to be excellent in mathematics! lol :wink: thank you :smiley:
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7.45GB is all you get on an 8GB stick.
If you think that is short changed, I recently bought a 1TB external HDD which max's out at 931GB.
I think what it is, is that vendors call 1000KB=1MB instead of 1024KB=1MB and so on.
so that is a Normal ? and also i have noted that there is a Guide and setup file into the USB flash drive ? I never seen such a files before lol ! :wink: thank you for info :smiley:
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More info on storage capacity measurements here....It's a bit of a con/ marketing trick, sellers use decimal, we use binary.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/194563en
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i have noted that there is a Guide and setup file into the USB flash drive ? I never seen such a files before lol ! :wink: thank you for info :smiley:
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I get that on the Cruzer Edge sticks that I buy but there was even more on the Seagate 1TB external drive which I got rid of by formatting it.
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good info Samson and Boggin :artist: :tongue: and I have some Questions here
1- for making an bootable USB flash drive for windows 7 > how many USB flash drive GB space I need for ?
2- for Kaspersky Rescue Disk ISO file > how many USB flash drive GB space I need for ?
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Hi, I think 4 gb is enough, but 8 g b , i prefer.
You should format before doing that. You have to insert some cmd commands to do before you do that.
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Hi, I think 4 gb is enough, but 8 g b , i prefer.
You should format before doing that. You have to insert some cmd commands to do before you do that.
good to hear from you so which commands is that ? :tongue:
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Hi, Please see this link
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2828.msg19452.html#msg19452
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Easy way I can think of is windows uses base 2 file size count.
If windows was to switch over to base 10 file size count you would see a bigger size usb.
so if windows had base 10 file size instead of base 2
you would download a file thats 230 mb from the internet and when you look at it on your usb it would show up as 250mb instead. kinda weird eh?
Base 2= binary (0 and 1)
Base 10= decimal (0-9)
Base 16= hexidecimal (0-9 A-F)
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Windows use hexadecimal because the memory addresses are so large.
When I created a bootable USB using Windows USB/DVD Burner Tool, I was prompted to format it first to NTFS, but I noticed in the link JR has posted that Diskpart formats it to FAT32.
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Hi, Boggins,
It will format automatically to NTFS. That is what i know of . But there was no problem. The tool is entirely different.
here we do not use any tool , but some cmd commands and total copy. Whereas usb dvd is set tool for this purpose.
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Easy way I can think of is windows uses base 2 file size count.
If windows was to switch over to base 10 file size count you would see a bigger size usb.
so if windows had base 10 file size instead of base 2
you would download a file thats 230 mb from the internet and when you look at it on your usb it would show up as 250mb instead. kinda weird eh?
Base 2= binary (0 and 1)
Base 10= decimal (0-9)
Base 16= hexidecimal (0-9 A-F)
yeah this wired and I hop there is no hiding adware/malware into my USB flash drive :cheesy: that will using that space like laptops vendor already do that into it
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Hi, Please see this link
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2828.msg19452.html#msg19452
I don’t understand that commands :confused: would you gave my the right commands ?
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Windows use hexadecimal because the memory addresses are so large.
When I created a bootable USB using Windows USB/DVD Burner Tool, I was prompted to format it first to NTFS, but I noticed in the link JR has posted that Diskpart formats it to FAT32.
this Microsoft tool is good to go with it ? or there any good tool to making a USB disk for windows 7
and do I need to format the new USB flash drive? If yes , which format type I need to go ?
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Hi, Please see this link
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2828.msg19452.html#msg19452
I don’t understand that commands :confused: would you gave my the right commands ?
diskpart select disk # (#= the number of the disk so change the # symbol into a number)
example:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B I have the disk numbers in red for you.
Disk 1 Online 3834 MB 0 B
next you type in
clean
create partition primary format fs=fat32 quickwait for it to complete then type in
active then after everything type in
exitAfter you are finished if you look at the properties of a usb you will get
I posted a pic
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Hi, Please see this link
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2828.msg19452.html#msg19452
I don’t understand that commands :confused: would you gave my the right commands ?
diskpart select disk # (#= the number of the disk so change the # symbol into a number)
example:
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B I have the disk numbers in red for you.
Disk 1 Online 3834 MB 0 B
next you type in
clean
create partition primary format fs=fat32 quickwait for it to complete then type in
active then after everything type in
exitAfter you are finished if you look at the properties of a usb you will get
I posted a pic
ok, i will give this a try and report back! thank
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I created my bootable USB directly from the ISO and not converting from a DVD which is probably why I was prompted to format to NTFS first.
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oh format to ntfs is good as well sorry.
I just translated that other post for you that you did not understand the commands to.
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oh format to ntfs is good as well sorry.
I just translated that other post for you that you did not understand the commands to.
ok I have not yet to run the commands so to be sure which format type I need to go with ? thank you