

But anything more than 250 MB was not accepted as the USB drive has lost all space after trying to burn some files on to it. The fact of the matter is that the USB drive was completely accessible and I can easily copy or move files and folders from my computer to the removable drive. The USB drive was showing the same space status e.g “ Free space available: 30 MB”, Used Space: 3.5 GB”. I performed a quick format and then a complete clean format of the removable pen drive but the lost space was not recovered. I thought that since I have burned all the files of a portable os on the USB drive, it might have rewritten the partition on the USB drive. More than 3 Gigabytes of free space was lost in thin air ! I opened Windows Explorer, right clicked the USB drive icon, selected properties and found that the available space shown was only 250 MB. The other day I was trying to burn an Image on a USB drive and ran into a strange problem.Īfter using a freeware image burner to burn a portable Operating system on my 4GB removable drive, I found that my USB drive has lost all it’s space. How To Use DiskPart Command To Recover Missing Or Unallocated Space On A USB Drive
