USB pen drives

[shiato storm]

hoping this is the right place for this, its sort of relevent so it probably is.
I have a 512mb pen drive (kingston data traveller) and deleted everything on it, yet there still is 128mb (or there abouts) used up with 200-something free. wtf...?
is it best to format as NTFS, Fat32 or just fat. whats the difference?

[Mike Fishcake]

is it in the recycle bin?

[Dougal]

Gonna be a stupid question, did you check for hidden files and folders?

[shiato storm]

um, nope

[nichomach]

Depending on the model it might have something like a separate secure partition on it? I know that the Datatraveller II has such a facility.

[autopilot]

I have had this problem myself and did not look into it very hard because i just did a 'quick' format. I don't think you can format a USB flashdrive as NTFS, so FAT32 is probably your best bet.

[Nox]

Fat 32 for compatibility with linux & windows 98/95 machines would get my vote.

Nox

[shiato storm]

right did fat32 and tried a ntfs one too, bizarely the ntfs format eacts up about 10mb where the fat32 only 4kb...odd that.

[zhenboy]

do a format in dos command line.... see if it works