{"id":2166,"date":"2021-03-17T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T06:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2021-03-17T06:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T06:12:24","slug":"usb-drive-shrink-in-size-how-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/usb-drive-shrink-in-size-how-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"USB drive shrink in size how to fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I have had some USB sticks which volumes shrank. <br>These are some of the snapshots of how my USB drive looks like. <br>It is actually supposed to be 16 GB drive, however showing wrong size. <br>If you have similar issue, read on. <br><br>Below is how it shows on My PC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.png 591w, https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Below is how it shows on disk management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image.png 649w, https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-300x46.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Below is a fix to USB drives showing wrong size. <br><br>1) Open Command Prompt as an administrator. Once DISKPART is opened, type in below commands colored in <strong><em><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">RED<\/span><\/code><\/em><\/strong>. <br>2) <code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">diskpart  <\/span><\/code><br>3)<strong><em><code> <\/code><\/em><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><em><code>list disk<\/code><\/em><\/strong> <\/span> you will see a list of disks currently attached. Its very important you have to make sure you select the right disk.<br>4) in my case I had to type :  <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em><strong><code>select Disk 2 <\/code><\/strong><\/em><\/span><br>5) <code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><em>clean<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/code><br>6) <em><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">create partition primary <\/span><\/code><\/strong><\/em><br>7) <em><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">list partition<\/span><\/code><\/strong><\/em><br>8)<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/span><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><code>format fs=NTFS<\/code> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/span>      (let it complete formatting, it normally takes a few minutes)<br>Once done, it will show correct disk size of your USB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2.png 660w, https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/teza.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have had some USB sticks which volumes shrank. These are some of the snapshots of how my USB drive looks like. It is actually supposed to be 16 GB drive, however showing wrong size. If you have similar issue, read on. Below is how it shows on My PC. Below is how it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/usb-drive-shrink-in-size-how-to-fix\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USB drive shrink in size how to fix&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}