The advancement of the technology has made huge things smaller with variety of features stored in. One such thing is the USB drive. We can store in big files and folders and carry them where ever we want without any difficulty. It’s light in weight, quick transferable solution, stores in big files and folders and at the same time, the data that’s stored in can be easily removed, deleted or transferred at any time without any cost.
There is one negative thing about the USB drives is that, it never stores in data to the space it actually claims to have. For example: if the pen drive claims to have 32 GB, it doesn’t actually allow 32 GB files to store in. no matter how much you try you will be able to store lesser than that, around 30 or even low. USB drives literally provide only a proportional amount of storage to the users. Along with this, there is also another issue where even when you have enough free space, the drive will tend to show low space, even if you try deleting data, the space remains the same. Sometimes these kinds of issues stay constant and cannot be fixed.
Today lets me help solve you this problem. Because USB drives are not just used to transfer movies and stuffs but majority use it for work purpose, educational need and more personal purposes. To transfer and carry files we need more space in our drives. So check out the whole article explained below in a step by step procedure, to find out how to regain the lost space in your USB drive.
There is one negative thing about the USB drives is that, it never stores in data to the space it actually claims to have. For example: if the pen drive claims to have 32 GB, it doesn’t actually allow 32 GB files to store in. no matter how much you try you will be able to store lesser than that, around 30 or even low. USB drives literally provide only a proportional amount of storage to the users. Along with this, there is also another issue where even when you have enough free space, the drive will tend to show low space, even if you try deleting data, the space remains the same. Sometimes these kinds of issues stay constant and cannot be fixed.
Today lets me help solve you this problem. Because USB drives are not just used to transfer movies and stuffs but majority use it for work purpose, educational need and more personal purposes. To transfer and carry files we need more space in our drives. So check out the whole article explained below in a step by step procedure, to find out how to regain the lost space in your USB drive.
Recover Unallocated Space in USB
Why we lose the storage space in a USB drive is mostly due to the partition table. This partition table which is inside the data storage gets damaged or gets misplaced. The drive skips the misplaced or the damaged storage as it reads the structure in a flow. To regain this storage follow the steps given below.
Plug in the USB drive to the PC and then press Windows + R on your PC. Then a dialogue box will appear, type in diskmgmt.msc and press enter. Now disk management panel of your PC will open up. Using this you will be able to troubleshoot the USB that’s connected to the PC.
Then open up the USB drive on the screen, when you click that, the management panel will show the different partitions. Here you must manage the partitions or combine all so that the USB drive will show us the exact space that’s available. Most of the time, there are some software which creates different partition, where this tends to show low space in the drive.
There are many methods available to manage the USB partitions. You can use the third party software or any other software but all what it does is remove, clean or rejoin the partitions, which can be easily done by yourself.
Remove Unallocated Partition Using Third-Party Tool
There are many third party tools available in the internet to recover lost or unallocated storage. The best third part tool I would recommend is the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
Now, you have to select the existing partition and right click on it and then choose the ‘resize partition’. In the next window, you have to now drag the slider to the end of the disk.
Finally, you will be able to see your partition status, where you can also undo your operations. If there was no problem found, then click ‘apply’ to make changes.
That’s it. Now you can recover lost or unallocated USB storage by trying any one of the method that’s given above. Both the methods are easy to proceed with. Hope you gained advantage from this app.
Why we lose the storage space in a USB drive is mostly due to the partition table. This partition table which is inside the data storage gets damaged or gets misplaced. The drive skips the misplaced or the damaged storage as it reads the structure in a flow. To regain this storage follow the steps given below.
Plug in the USB drive to the PC and then press Windows + R on your PC. Then a dialogue box will appear, type in diskmgmt.msc and press enter. Now disk management panel of your PC will open up. Using this you will be able to troubleshoot the USB that’s connected to the PC.
Then open up the USB drive on the screen, when you click that, the management panel will show the different partitions. Here you must manage the partitions or combine all so that the USB drive will show us the exact space that’s available. Most of the time, there are some software which creates different partition, where this tends to show low space in the drive.
There are many methods available to manage the USB partitions. You can use the third party software or any other software but all what it does is remove, clean or rejoin the partitions, which can be easily done by yourself.
Remove Unallocated Partition Using Third-Party Tool
There are many third party tools available in the internet to recover lost or unallocated storage. The best third part tool I would recommend is the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
This works with the windows operating system and helps recover lost storage. This is a completely free tool that can be used.
First of all you have to get the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition and install it in your windows PC and launch it.
Next in the main interface of the tool, you will see your USB partition. Right click on the USB partition and select format partition. Then a window will pop up , where you have to select ‘NTFS’ or ‘FAT32’ and click OK to continue.
First of all you have to get the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition and install it in your windows PC and launch it.
Next in the main interface of the tool, you will see your USB partition. Right click on the USB partition and select format partition. Then a window will pop up , where you have to select ‘NTFS’ or ‘FAT32’ and click OK to continue.
Now, you have to select the existing partition and right click on it and then choose the ‘resize partition’. In the next window, you have to now drag the slider to the end of the disk.
Finally, you will be able to see your partition status, where you can also undo your operations. If there was no problem found, then click ‘apply’ to make changes.
That’s it. Now you can recover lost or unallocated USB storage by trying any one of the method that’s given above. Both the methods are easy to proceed with. Hope you gained advantage from this app.