Brand new 16G USB Kingston Thumbdrive reporting full when empty?

Question

I just bought a brand new 16G USB Kingston Thumdrive. However, when I tried to copy a 4.5G movie onto it, it keeps saying that it's full. But it can't be, it's empty. I've reformated it a few times, even downloaded the latest driver and installed it but somehow, the .inf file cannot be created and some files also could be created (according to the installer). I've even uninstalled and reinstalled and rebooted 3 times to no avail! It's a DT101G2/16GB thumbdrive. I even went to the Device Manager and it was blue, not black. Help! This little thing has cost me almost a hundred Malaysian dollars! Why won't it work? It's empty, it's brand new! How can it be full?!

Answer 1

A format should solve it. If windows doesn;t want to format it then it is probably using a different file system.

Have you tried formatting it in fat32, fat or NTFS?



1. Press Windows Logo + R, type cmd, then click OK to launch the command prompt window.



2. Run now this command:



format H: /FS:FAT32 /x



Replace H: with your own USB flash drive letter (E:, F:, G:, etc.). You can also replace FAT32 with another file system such as NTFS, FAT, etc.

Answer 2

It's half full. I'm still trying to find out what it's full of though.

Answer 3

ok right click, select properties & format it to FAT32.