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USB flash drive showing empty but half of the capacity is in Used

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Mar 15, 2026186412 views
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Not sure if I should post my question in superuser, but it looks like the most appropriate place among all StackExchange sites. I have a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler USB drive. When I tried to use it this morning, it showed up nothing in there but yet its details showed that half of the capacity was …

Error Output

16K 
./.Trashes 960K 
./.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/2620683B-A38B-42F4-A247-45CAF4826ADE 976K ./.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores 1008K 
./.Spotlig…

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Fix for: USB flash drive showing empty but half of the capacity is in Used

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A few things to check Check if there are any hidden files on the usb drive. You could also use Disk Management to see if there's any issues with the partitions. You might also try using a program to recover lost data like get data back. The last thi…

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