How to Fix Your USB Drive Showing Wrong Size on Windows (with diskpart)

Learn how to use the diskpart command to clean and format a USB drive that has less space than it says i.e. shows an incorrect size, usually in MB vs GB.
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Thank you for an excellent short video on how to fix this problem.

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[@game5ma5her95]

bro you saved my drive. i did something in partition management and i thought i bricked it thank you so much for the step by step video

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yes ! good video, easy explaining what I needed

[@zalexSR]

man, thank you a lot. my usb drive went from 16 gb to 63 mb and i could fix it after watching your video.

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Thank you so much for your video! Your instructions are quick and easy to follow!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

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​@@TonyTeachesTechafter I done the cmd stuff the usb stopped showing up..

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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amazing video, detailed, explained, brief, and efficient. thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hmdanz]

Thanks a lot, it worked! You saved me money; I was about to buy some apps that required payment to perform this simple task

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Thanks! It worked.

[@alonsonico10]

I had to eject first and then do the last format, but everything else was ok. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@TheBandit87]

This is the first video I've watched of yours and looks like I'll be subscribing! I flashed Kali linux to a bootable USB and it went from 32gb to 6gb So I thought i'd format it and try do a partition but it stayed at 6gb so did a quick google and you came up... fixed it in 1.38 🤣Thanks 🙌

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totally agree with below. super sharp and to the point. honestly many thanks. though win11 seems to have added some complications. brilliant vid

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Thank you so much!!! Such a life saver!!!

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tHANK YOU!!

[@powerbrian123]

This helped me alot. I have a usb and I made it into a disk recovery thing. I erased it and it was telling me I only had 32 gb on it. It's a 1tb drive. This helped me restore all of the drives space

[@MyMrHardy]

awesome! greate guide

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Thank´s Tony.👍

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@Tony Teaches Tech Thank you! My HP 32GB flash drive was only showing 280MB total size after i had deleted Chrome OS Flex off the drive, lol

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[@perhaps9460]

Thank you so much for the help, it was working fine on my steam deck but then I plugged it into my pc and kept saying I only had 128 mb total

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thank you quick and easy to a novice

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Thank you , that helped me.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it helped

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Bless You!!!

[@oleguerinsano1]

ok! but when you have one adapter with little flash (In my case, dual micro sd to memory stick adapter) and this flash limit the size of the memory to 104gb (you can use more micro sd size), but flash only show 104gb, what I can do?? Because I used two micro sd with 128gb (256gb total) and the adapter only shows 104gb..... any ideas?? Thank you @Tony Teaches Tech

[@ubiskenasduseikenas]

Create partition primary does not work, so I assume "clean dont work", getting message :No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset

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YOU HAVE SAVED MY PENDRIVE

[@robsonsousa1537]

I Used Rufus and formated wit no Bootable option without using any ISO and it woks fine to fix the issue Usei o Rufus e formatei sem usar nenhuma opção de boot e sem precisar de isos e funcionou pra mim

[@posthardcoresinger]

easy thanks!

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You're welcome!

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ideal!!!!

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Why work with DOS and CMD when you can use Windows' built-in disk management application?

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Thanks!

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Are there any more solution alternatives?

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[@JamiePegler]

After using a 256gb flash drive to do a clean install of windows the drive was showing 32gb. Completed the process shown and am now back to the original size :-)

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Amazing 🙌

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Thank you! Cheers!

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Brilliant :)

[@cjnguyen4595]

After I did clean I cant see the disk anymore i just cant view it anymore is there a solution that can help

[@YoanGenchev]

My problem is that I have a flash drive with real 64gb but showing 256gb, how to fix this? I tried this method but it's not working

[@157Proz]

when i put list disk only show's that my pendrive has 8mb of space and that's not true because i had 7gb of files on it, and i down know how to fix the size, already tried everything can someone help me

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good video

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

Welcome

[@33-ankitkumarsahoo13]

Its showing DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied. What shall i do ?

[@shrimpiee56]

It doesn't show my disk in the command prompt, none of them appear

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you are the best

[@nolsos]

good my usb is not working now, not even showing or detected by my pc

[@Braddas1977]

I followed your steps but my 64gb usb still only shows 57gb. good easy to follow video though, thank you

[@_Trakman]

is this FAT32 issue or that usb thumb drive manufacturers preload security/encryption software on the drives?!

[@An.Individual]

The basic issue was that his HDD had 2 partitions. It is not s FAT32 issue. Any HDD can have more than one partition using any format, could just as easily been NTFS

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can see this issue with any format. Often happens when drive is formatted on another machine with an unrecognized format or corrupted

[@OpAfAnx]

My ssd is showing wrong size

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Format using your phone is easier 👍

[@crashdisk-ik7yq]

Did not work!

[@VgAce135]

I think it is just crazy that you cannot format a USB drive in Windows and have it do this.

[@ThisRemindsMeOfaJoke]

lol didn't work. it says my 64 GB usb is 57 GB

[@amirfakhri7296]

Windows seem lies ,pen drive is different.

[@t00ls742]

formatting using the GUI still uses diskpart it isnt linux, stop treating it like it is

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Funcionou perfeitamente capitão 🫡 Agradecido

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Thank you!

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Thank you