Recover Lost Storage Space on Pen Drive/ memory card/stick

Hi All,

There are times when our USB storage devices like pen drives or memory cards show storage capacity which is far less than the actual capacity.

A 8 GB pen drive might how only 2 GB space and so on. In some cases , the storage media is also inaccessible.

To solve this on a windows system, we are going to use an inbuilt tool called diskpart.

1) Press windows key + R key to open the run dialog box. In the box type in cmd and hit enter.
A command prompt screen would pop up.

2) In the command prompt window, type DISKPART and hit Enter.

3) A new command prompt window will open up. Type in the following command one by one

4) DISKPART> list disk

5) DISKPART> select disk 1

6) DISKPART> clean

7) DISKPART> create partition primary

8) DISKPART> exit

9 ) Go to file explorer and format the drive by right clicking on it and selecting format. Make sure to select NTFS for storage devices above 4 GB.

10) The storage device will show its actual space now and would also be accessible.

Hope this simple host would have had helped you.
Keep commenting and keep sharing :)