Flash drive help

[Mky762]

This happened to me twice on two flash drives and i dont know why it happens.

I have a 2 gig flash drive and i had about 100 MB left on it and i wanted to free up some more space on it so i delete a good amount of space and i got it to about 300 MB maybe even more. After that it acts normal and im able to put files on it. But for some reason after a week or so, i drag a file to the flash drive folder and it says that theres no room left, when on the left it says i have about 300 MB left. and this happens to any type of file and any size, even a folder cannot be created. I tried formatting the flash drive and copying the files back to it and that didnt work(i was able to get the original files back on it but not any newer ones) . Ive seen on some fourms that theres this trash directory on the drive but i cant seem to locate it. I use the drive on different computers that run xp and one laptop thats running windows 2000. and only that the laptop i do the "safe remove" option because i heard that xp had that problem solved.

The flash drive i have is a Cruzer micro 2GB with U3, though i deleted the U3 software and the other software that came with it.

any help would be greatly appreciated

thank you.

 

[toon_marth]

I hate this brand of flash drive, personally. Are there any hidden files or folders on the drive that would cause it to take up space but not display it? Just a thought.

And, if all else fails, buy a Lexar. I like their software and I have one myself.

 

[Mky762]

not that i can find, i enabled the hidden folder and file option but nothing that seems out of the ordinary,

 

[Mky762]

Well i stumbled upon a page that (so far) fixed my problem, i dont know if it solved my problem for sure but so far its working.

thanks for your help.

If anyone else seems to have this problem, try this: http://www.geckoandfly.com/tag/flash-drive-error/

sorry for double post....

 

[AltF4]

I was going to suggest three possible things:

1) Defragmenting the drive. You might have the room total, but no space for a single large file.

2) Finding and deleting any possible trashbin folders

3) Reformat the whole drve


But it sounds like you already did the 3rd thing.

 

[Mky762]

i defragmented my drive and after it did it had no fragmented files and i still couldnt put anything on it, and i couldnt find any trashbin folders in the drive, i checked the system folder of the drive but that didnt seem to have anything of importance on it. is there any way the trashbin folder is hidden but is still invisible even if you have the "see hidden folders & files" option on. because i have that option on but there are sometimes when i dont see anything in a folder, but when i right click the folder and go into properties, it says that there are files in that folder

 

[AltF4]

I think that it should show you the files if you have the hidden files set to show.

It could be any number of things still, I guess. Just reformat the drive. Save a copy of the contents of the drive, format it, then move them back. See if that works.

 

[Mky762]

Its weird, for some reason reformatting the drive to FAT (its original file system) didnt work but reformatting it to FAT32 did.

But who's complaining, it fixed my problem, i have nothing to question.

thanks again for the help

 

[noradseven]

Its weird, for some reason reformatting the drive to FAT (its original file system) didnt work but reformatting it to FAT32 did.

But who's complaining, it fixed my problem, i have nothing to question.

thanks again for the help

You were probably in FAT16 then which has a file size cap.