No files on flash drive, half of memory used, formatting dosent work

[The_spacemonkey]

Hey guys., I have a 512Mb Lexar USB drive, and it claims 240MB is used even though there are no files on it. I ran defrag, scanned for errors and all of that jazz. I tried formatting it with Fat formatting and got an error that the drive cannot be formatted and to close all programs using the drive (there were none using it). I read the thread about problems with flash drives and how to format them, but I cannot find a single person i know who still has a W98 OS.


Thanks in advance for any help!

Bobby

 

[TypeX45]

So you are still using windows 98? You can try this is might work for you. I have never tried it on windows 98.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html

 

[The_spacemonkey]

No I dont have windows 98, what I was saying was that I searched for info on my problem on this forum and mostly people said to find someone with windows 98 and reformat it on their computer. But I dont know anyone with windows 98.


I will try your suggestion. thanks!!


Bobby

 

[N3051M]

try a unix pc or a Mac pc.. the latter (mac) will tell windows its not formatted for it and will let you format over it.. although i havent fully tested that theory out yet...

 

[Tedster]

https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic45834.html

 

[korrupt]

Hi,

I'm sure you've thought of this but it's worth giving a try. Have you checked that all those files/folders are not hidden folders? I have done that before:s

Good luck.