I have a TDK trans-it drive 4gb. I have partiotioned it so that 3GB of it is secure. I now want to decrease the secure area voulume. When I click on the relevent icon in the software it says unable to determine the drive size. Even formatting the open area of the flash drive still only gives me the set 1GB of space. Pleae help. How do I get the full 4Gb back tp public access.

You may have bought a 'fake' flash drive, or the storage chip has failed.

Right click > Properties. Is it 8 or 4? Format if 8. You will lose all data, so backup first.


Or are you just referring to free space?

click start control panel administrative tools computer management device manager scroll down universal serial bus controllers you could see a yellow question / exclamation mark? ! or a red X

you will need to update/reinstall drivers

right click to reinstall drivers

if you can see your usb drive but its not working

ports (com&lpt) right click update driver if this fails to fix the problem

check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red white green black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems for a computer and its parts

if you need more help with this post a reply

hope this helps you

Hi,
Save what ever is on the flash drive. Go to 'My Computer' and right click on the pen drive icon. Select 'Format', un-check quick format option and click OK. Acknowledge the warning about loosing data.
That should do it.

Zahc

Reformat with this utility.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-order,4-page,1/download.html

TDK-branded USB drives with built-in TRANS-IT security.
"Flash Lock" password system security:
TRANS IT USB Password protection software (english)

Hello,

You can try this out:
After powering up your system, and you have plugged the flash drive, then Right-Click on my computer icon, select manage, then go to Disk Management Option.

On the Disk management option Page you should see ALL the drives installed on your system, including the hidden ones, so what you will just do is, try and locate the one representing your flash drive, and right click on it. then select "Change Drive letter and Paths", and give the drive any new, unique letter (i.e alphabet) different from the ones already on your system, and click on OK.

This should make your Flash Drive to be detected automatically.

Kindly keep me posted about the problem

Hope this helps you out.

Goodluck!

there is a warranty claim pending here. use it before it expires and claim ignorance of why it has failed.

HP USB Disk/Drive Format Utility is a Windows based software
used to format drives to FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partition types.


1. Download this tool:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4040651/HPUSBFW_2.2.3_MASTER.exe

2. Format Flash Drive

(Before removing USB flash drive click on the Safely Remove
Hardware icon and then click on USB flash drive you want to remove)

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sir my flash automatic write protect . tdk 2 gb