File might be too large for the drive-
There are various amount of the size of the data that can be stored on a USB flash drive, for e.g. 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, however there is a space reservation allocated on the drive for filesys. File that attempted to be stored might be larger that the drive capacity.
Drive might be bad
Drive may be corrupted due to bad file process in the disk; it may be formatted if the filesys is not yet corrupted, since the drive is bad, data cannot be stored on the drive until it is fixed.
Drive might be write protected-
These are basic feature in certain drive to ensure data protection to prevent data from being overwrite or deleted.
You failed to mention what operating systems are involved. What does the work computer use as an operating system. The file system format of the USB may be say as an example ntfs windows while as a hypothetical the work computer could be apple o/s using a different file system or even maybe a unix system. You may need to reformat the usb stick to be the format file system used by the work computer. Also there could be a policy in place to prevent usb sticks working on work computers to protect intellectual property or to protect against virus transferance.
SOURCE: Deleted files from my PNY 4GB flash drive are still taking up space.
Most flash drive comes with its on date support files on it. If those had not been removed then, yes it will show some space used.
SOURCE: 2gb usb 2.0 flash drive
I hope someone has helped you by now! After you plug your flash drive into your computer USB 2 port, your flash drive should appear in "my computer" as a drive. You can rename that drive by clicking once on the drive and then right clicking your mouse and selecting "rename" and name it Your USB or something that reminds you its the USB Drive.
Whether you rename it or not, all you have to do once your computer has recognized the USB drive is to open the folder where your documents are kept and either "move" or "copy" them to the USB drive. Remember that "moving" the files will remove them from your computer and transfer them to the USB drive. Copying the files will leave a copy on your computer as it copies the file to your USB drive. You can also right click the file with your mouse and move the pointer over "Send To" and choose your USB drive from the list and it will Copy the file to your USB drive.
SOURCE: pny usb 2.0 flash drive memory stick
windows xp doesnt recognize in drive f, when i open and prompt it to format it says disk is copy right protected. I open it and there is a bunch of foreign mumbo jumbo that i can't delete
SOURCE: Cannot access flash drive when I plug into my
if the flash worked well on 1 pc then the prob is frome the other one(new 1 propably)...**** it could be anything....operating sys .. drivers...and other stuff....try to give me more details..like what os r u using...!!!!
SOURCE: I have a 16G USB flashdrive. I'm trying to save
When the drive is plugged in, empty the recycle bin or trash can on the computer. It may still being seeing used space because the files are technically still there. they don't really go away till you empty that recycle bin.
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Well, to be more productive, I just buy another one. Not flash drive but a hard drive with 1 Tb or more for huge storage spaces. If the place I bought the flash drive from offers a refund then I will not hesitate to refund it. If they don’t, I wouldn’t worry, I may use it also. Especially when offline sharing files from another computer. I don’t have guts on using the hard drive for sharing because of possible of sharing of virus also. That would be a terrible problem.
If I don’t have enough budget for hard drive because it’s a bit much expensive, I‘ll spare time to browse all the files I store. Delete the unnecessary files I surely wouldn’t use for the future.
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