USB drive problem - can't store anything! help!

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DarkDonut

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For Xmas I got a 16GB USB drive and for some reason I can't store more than about 1GB on it. I thought it was just a borked drive but then I tried it with my cousin's drive and it's doing the same thing. Anyone know what's going on?

It was also doing some really weird stuff like if i stored a folder on the drive, it would convert all of its contents into oddly named files that were about 175kb a piece thus making the data unusable.

anyone know what's going on?
 
i did search around and there seems to be some other people having the same problems but no solution. I'd hoped one of u [H] geniuses would know what to do ;/
 
I would suggest doing a fresh (non quick) format of the drive to NTFS (unless you need to use it on Mac's/Linux) then report back. And as said above, what exact drive are you talking about?
 
Are you trying to put a lot of files in the root directory? Because if you are I believe there is a limit imposed by the file system. Once you hit that limit even if there is free space you won't be able to copy any more data to the drive. I don't remember what the actual limit is on files and or folders. If thats your problem the answer is to sort the files into folders to reduce the number of items in the root directory. I've seen this on floppies and flash memory cards.
 
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