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06-18-2008 at 04:47:40 PM

I have purchased 4GB & 8GB flash drives. If I check them with gparted partition manager, they all seem to have unused space. This space is not normally usable. As an example my 8GB stick has about 900mb of unused space. With gparted, I'm able to format that area as dos. It will then show up as another stick on my desktop. Why do flash drives have unused space?

Is it okay to utilize this via gparted?

So far, I've not found anything on this forum, nor via the Web.

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06-18-2008 at 04:58:38 PM

Some models have a space on the disk reserved for encrypted files or AV software. Your sticks might have that. It shows up as another stick because there are 2 partitions the stick now. Same as 2 partitions on a HDD show up as 2 HDD.


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