Hi guys, i recently purchased a 512MB USB storage device, something im mainly going to use for school and some programming projects. But i noticed something when i looked at the space available. I just plugged it in my computer (running winXP) and noticed only 495MB are available. Now i also noticed something else, it is formatted in FAT. I was wondering if i should compress the drive to FAT32 while formatting it.
I noticed this option on win98 where they actually tell me that imma have around 700 megs instead on 495 MB.
On winXP it doesn't tell me much. Well i await an answer, maybe some of you were concidering the same tempting attemp to get more space! Please tell me what would happen!
If you want to
I have a LEXAR ELITE 512MB USB 2.0
Hope you guys can help!
crypter
