How to Increase the Storage Space on USB Drives

You may notice that the capacity of your USB flash drive has decreased over time despite deleting unwanted files. Or you may have received a pop up screen that says your USB flash drive is full after inserting it in your computer. This can be caused by programs leaving hidden files on the drive, such as when you save word processing documents or transfer massive amounts of pictures from your digital camera to your USB flash drive. Another common cause is when your operating system creates hidden files when you connect a USB drive to the computer. It is possible to increase the storage space of your USB flash drive by deleting unwanted hidden files.

Instructions

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     Click on "Start," then "Control Panel", then select "Category" in the "View by" drop-down box located in the upper right-hand corner of the control panel screen.
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     Click on "Appearance and Personalization," then "Show hidden files and folders" under the "Folder Options" section. The folder options screen now appears.
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     Click on "Show hidden files, folders, or drives" in the Advanced settings box, then uncheck the checkbox labeled "Hide extensions for known file types" and "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)." Click on "OK" then "Apply" to finish.
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     Insert your USB flash drive into a USB slot in your computer. A screen showing the contents of your USB flash drive will now appear. You will now be able to view icons and files that were not previously visible. Select the files and delete them. If you are unsure of a file's purpose, type the name of the file in a search engine to find out what it is. Delete the all hidden files you don't want.
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     Click on "Start," then "Computer," then right click on the USB flash drive and select "Properties" to see how much space you freed.

     
     

     Another Ways :

     You can do a lot of things with your PEN DRIVE or BULK USB DRIVES or FLASH USBDRIVES or whatever you've got there. You can make this little storage into CUSTOM PEN DRIVES by giving it a name, password etc. However, the main thing you want from it to STORE YOUR DATA, right? What happens if you've only 4 GB USB FLASH PEN DRIVES and a file you want to store here is 4.7 GB? Oops you can't put it in there, right? Well, say adios to this problem by following these tips.
     
     Generally your Pen Drive is preformatted with FAT, FAT 32 File system, where there's no options to COMPRESS FILES to SAVE DISK SPACE. But if you FORMAT PEN DRIVEinto NTFS system, you can compress file. By following these steps you can you canINCREASE YOUR PEN DRIVE SPACE.
     
     1. Click to Start Button & go to Run.
     2. Write “cmd” in Run option & open Commend.

     3. Write “convert X:/FS:NTFS” & press Enter. ( Here X means the Pen Drive’s Drive Name)

     4. Then go to My Computer & Click the right button on Pen Drive & open Properties.
     5. From here click the right mark on “Compress Drive to Save Disk Space” & press OK.
     6. Now click OK on “Apply to Sub Folder and Files” option (If Come).
     
     Now if you save any file or folder to your Pen Drive it didn’t get more Space.