Try formatting at 'FAT' or 'FAT32' with all options set to 'Default'.
Most likely a defective file system. Try re-formatting the drive.
As data is saved to a hard drive, the free space lessens until the there is no more space for further data - the drive is full. I assume this is what is meant by the "shrunk" hard disk drive in the question? Formatting the drive will return the drive to the original size. Note: formatting doesn't actually wipe the drive completely, the data is still on the drive. Only the links to the data is severed, so the computer acts as though the drive is blank and it can write new data to the drive.
it is not possible to extend the size of your c drive. it is possible when u r formatting your whole system,at that time you can increase and decrease the size of c drive.
Formatting USB (or any other drive) is meant to refreshen the disk leaving nothing in it. However, sometimes even after formatting all the data may not be wiped out but that is not because of older files. Rather it is because of some physical errors on drive causing some space to become unusable.
Windows 2000 and XP computers utility for formatting only supports 32GB formatting for fat32. However, FAT32 allows up to 2TB of space to be formatted from ntfs. So most likely your using XP. Search Google for "Disk Format Utilities" and you can find ones that will format your drive from ntfs to fat32 without losing space.
A certain amount of disk space is used for the file allocation table (FAT). The FAT is like a books table of contents.
It does note remove all formatting but the option menu: Format > Simplify Formatting (Ctrl + Space) cleans the notes very well!
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Raw text is about 2K per page. So.... 125,000,000 if you ignore the space cost of formatting with your word processing software.
Hard disk formatting means preparing new space for data storage. This is by creating tracks and sectors in the disk.
No you don't, but there are some issues if you have just logical partitions, one of them is a hard drive space might not be used completely after formatting meaning you will have some space under unallocated region. To get rid of such things helps, for instance, Acronis Director Suite and other similar software.
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