What's up with my USB pen drive?

I have an 8GB USB pen drive but in my computer Windows 7 says its only 1GB. I did have have a lot of unwanted files on the disk so I reformatted it, after that it only shows as having 1GB capacity.

What's wrong with it?

asked Dec 12 '10 at 20:10

DazOwen
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Try looking at the flash drive in disk management. There may be something on it that you may want to delete

answered Dec 12 '10 at 20:23

kevin ♦♦
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There's absolutely nothing on the drive. Of a total of 8GB there's only 950MB available.

(Dec 12 '10 at 20:26) DazOwen

as in hidden partition on the flash drive

(Dec 12 '10 at 20:26) kevin ♦♦

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