Please HELP!?

I have a memory stick (1GB memory) and it had passwrod protection. I was getting sick off it because password protection doesn't work on my school's computer, so I asked my dad how to get rid of it. He told me to move all my files onto the hard drive and then format it.

So I did. But now my memory stick only has 9.49 MB of memory.

HELP! What have I done wrong? WHy is it doing this?

Please anwer fast!

Please HELP!?antivirus software

all hard disks have less than the amount they are. This is because they write a small amount of info for your and other computers allowing them to write to it. Without it it would not have writing capacity.

Hope that this helps.

Please HELP!?computer virus

Ok it sounds like the area that was password protected was in a separate partition, and only left you 10MB, so when you formatted it, it only formatted what it could access.

Open control panel%26gt; administrative tools%26gt;computer management%26gt; disk management. Insert you USB drive and see if it shows up "partitioned" 10MB in one partition and 990MB in another that is not formatted. Delete all the partitions, and create on partition, then reformat.

If it only shows 10MB and nothing else, you may have to download the manufactures security program to unlock the rest of the thumb drive.

BTW what kind is it, manufacture and model?

One more question did you format the USB stick FAT or FAT32? It really does not mater with a 1GB as FAT can handle up to 2GB and FAT32 can handle over 2 GB. Just curious you didnt format it NTFS. And when you formatted it, does it only give you a 10MB Capacity?

Hope this helps

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insert the disk and right click and look at the properties