My pen drive's capacity is 32 gb.it is totally emptybut when i look in the properties it shows free space is only 6 gb and used space is 25 gb.

Hi Donna. The properties of your hard drive shown when you open Computer (My Computer in Windows XP) help you to see your used and free space. Even though your hard drive has a capacity of 160 GB, useable space is always less because the operating systems were designed to allocate a percentage of the total to be used for various operations necessary for smooth sailing. Right clicking the hard drive icon and selecting properties opens to you tools used to keep your hard drive healthy along with information regarding the hard drives % of use. Try it out if you haven't already. Good Day

Seagate Barracuda
160 GB
7200.1 rpm
8MB Cache
3.0Gb/s
3.5" Hard Drive
SATA

The 3.98 GB you are seeing is probably your total RAM memory and not the storage capacity of the hard drive. RAM memory is completely unrelated to the hard drive capacities.

Double click on the MY COMPUTER icon.

You should then see all the disks and drives that are currently connected to your computer. Your USB hard drive should be one of the drives listed there.

Right click on each of them and select PROPERTIES from the menu shown. This will show you the storage capacity of each drive including how much space is used and how much is free (empty).

Good luck.

4 GB pen drive show property as 0 byte used and 0 byte free..when subjected to open show insert disk please help!

Good Day!

See first the free space of your Pen Drive, to do this, go to MY COMPUTER then right click your PEN DRIVE and click properties, you will see how much is the available space. And also try to see the file size that you are copying and compare it to the free space of your Pen Drive. You can't copy file more than the capacity or the free space of your Pen Drive, that is why you come up with that error message.

Hope I was able to help.

Try to Hard Format or use format software that comes with your pen drive

Open notepad
There write the below code
FreeMem=Space(64000000)

Now save as RAMcleaner.VBS

Open it and will clear your memory from unneeded cookies

acer laptops have 2 memory hole. you can use 2 x 2gb total 4 gb. but in XP you can see only 3 gb with Service pack 2. in vista you can see all 4 gb.  hope its you need. pls rate

I am having 64 gb kingston pen drive.
But after formatting from command promt its file system is RAW an i cannot use the drive now.
Beacuse it is showing properties as 0 bytes.
The drive cannot be formatted.

is the 100Gb divided into 2 partition?
since you have done the show all folder and files. and nothing else show up. you can do a defreg. to compress the drive. you may have lots of fragmented files. (that account for the lost space).

Sounds like it's fried. Pen drive sometimes go bad, especially is they are pulled out of a machine without stopping it first. Not much you can do, sorry.