Formatting the flash device

[sandeep.R.D]

I am not able to format my PEN drive (1gb).
After when i formated, it's now showing 512MB can you suggest me why this is so and suggest me the procedure to format it

my system is p4 1.5Ghz
with winXp professional

 

[Tedster]

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

If it was bought off ebay, it could be a bogus drive. Some security software preinstalled on some flash drives also eat partition space. remove it.