Why is my kingston 32gb g3 datatraveler flash drive storing less than a gig of data, even when formated as FAT32. Can datatraveler be formated as NTFS ? need full data storage capacity.

Well put him in your laptop or desktop and the most easist way is to go to my computer, where it possible will be stand as letter(x): datatraveller. just select it with you left buttom, push on the righ -->format----> you can choose quick format , which is wrong, that one only removes the index, not the data, show choose ntfs 4096kb totall format and enter
The problem with ssd and flashmemory is that it's hard to really remove the data , compared to an old fashioned diskdrive. This is caused by the way the data is stored .
It's a bit the same that you think you can remove all virtual copies from windows..... impossible... just goole for fun if you think your harddisk is clean, it ain't.
gr richard and a total format is ok to clean your flashdrive... not if it involves data which never may be recoverd-->>>> burn it

the i/o stands for input/output device and the flash drive is one of them,try formatting the drive on another operating system like ubuntu

format it by this one
http://partition-magic.soft32.com/download/file/id/130684/?

Get data back is a file recovery program for flash drives, it may work for this, but if the files are corrupt you would then be recovering corrupt files.

click start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes

automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start

you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage this drive

I found that you get best results by ticking one box then returning after it has finished then tick the other box

then you restore it to its default status

Right click on usb drive select properties you will have an array of options

Select the hardware option then select your drive properties policies

restore defaults

In XP

Right click on your drive select properties then on customize restore Default in W 7


If you need more help with this post a reply

hope this helps

click start click on my computer you should see your usb drive
right click then select format

another way is to control panel administrive tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select format
hope this helps

Try formatting the drive, right click select format, and you can also try system tools and scan drive for errors. possibly defective.

I have kingston datatraveler 200 (64gb) and I backum 4gb`s on that usb, but when I want to opet that, its corrupted, damaged and now I cant even format my usb.. help 

Try HP formatting tool with administrator previliages in vista

hello evelymont i found a solution to our problem!!try to download HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and try to formta the flash stick to fat32 file system!!And after that you're ready to store any file you want unless you put them in a folder first because of the fat32 file system and not saving them on the root for exaple if you want to store an avi file at E: where E: is your kingston usb data traveler save the avi like this e:/name of the folder/avi file, and not in the root e:/avi file!!
that 's it !!congrats for your buy!!