USB 128GB Flash Drive Problems

knightheart

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I recently purchased 2 128 GB flash drives, one Kingston and the other SanDisk. When I first put them in the USB slot on my computer, the total storage space was about 120GB.

However, when I put BOTH of them in the computer again, I only showed 500 MB total. How can this be???? I tried plugging the flashdrives into 3 other computers and the same amount shows...not even 1 GB on a 128 GB flashdrive.

What is going on. I just spent almost $80 on these 2 drives and don't have even 1 GB of storage total!

Am I going nuts?

Knightheart
 
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Where did you get these flash drives?
If it's from Ebay then ut's likely faked.

knightheart

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Hi, and thanks for responding so quickly. I got both from Amazon.com. I did contact Kingston and sent the drive back and got a refund. I sure don't know how to tell if I got a fake drive or not. Guess no more online buying of hardware for me. How disappointing.

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knightheart

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I chose 'Format' from the menu and it has FAT as the default for the file system. I am showing 509 MB of total space. Do I use the default FAT option or one of the others???