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    • Mike Ralston
      Mike Ralston last edited by Mike Ralston

      So I've had a new issue today: I was going about installing some drivers onto a USB for a PC with an in-operative Ethernet controller... And the USB drives I was going to put them on, have all changed from 8GB, to various small sizes, in the order of Hundreds of KB. These have all come from a bag that we received for free, courtesy of Scale Computing, at Spicecorps 2013 in Rochester. I've tried reformatting, using ones that I know have worked in the past, testing on multiple machines, and using fresh ones, and they've all changed to being much smaller, but all different sizes.

      Does anyone have experience with this sort of drive degradation on USB Flash Storage?

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Could it be that they have drive images on them?

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        • gjacobse
          gjacobse last edited by

          I've not known a USB thumb drive to just start giving variable space... They either work or crap out completely. If they are crapping out,.. they generally will have read/write issues. also.

          While there could be hidden files and such on them as @scottalanmiller suggested, you may want to change how you are formatting them.

          Select one out of the group, format it with Windows is it close to the stated capacity?

          Take the same unit, format it with RUFUS and do the same thing... did the size change?

          You can also try the HP USB Format tool.

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          • Mike Ralston
            Mike Ralston @gjacobse last edited by

            @g.jacobse Tried all this. Also, they were functioning perfectly yesterday. Ones I've used before are now doing this, ones never touched before are as well., I tried 4 drives.

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            • gjacobse
              gjacobse @Mike Ralston last edited by

              @Mike-Ralston

              Interesting - this is different to say the list. Do you have any that are not from that bag that you can try the same cycle with? Any Kennston, Sony, Samsung or other drives you could try?

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller @Mike Ralston last edited by

                @Mike-Ralston said:

                @g.jacobse Tried all this. Also, they were functioning perfectly yesterday. Ones I've used before are now doing this, ones never touched before are as well., I tried 4 drives.

                Oh, now THAT is weird.

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                • Mike Ralston
                  Mike Ralston @gjacobse last edited by

                  @g.jacobse Yeah, no issues with anything but those.

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                  • ?
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Format them from the command line and see. Sounds like it's partitioned or running a boot image.

                    Also could be that scale computing got duped. there are plenty of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB & 64GB for sale online that are less than 1GB of actual storage they just make them report has high number to the OS and most people don't notice til to late. When you try to use more than the actual storage is when problems happen.

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                    • Mike Ralston
                      Mike Ralston @Guest last edited by

                      @thecreativeone91 That seems to be the issue... They're not REALLY 8GB

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                      • gjacobse
                        gjacobse @Mike Ralston last edited by

                        @Mike-Ralston said:

                        @thecreativeone91 That seems to be the issue... They're not REALLY 8GB

                        Sounds like a case of 'chuckware'... Time to chuck them.

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                        • Mike Ralston
                          Mike Ralston @gjacobse last edited by

                          @g.jacobse said:

                          Sounds like a case of 'chuckware'... Time to chuck them.

                          Sure does!

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