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Why does my usb have less space than it says?
This is a very weird issue. My USB size becomes less after creating a Windows bootable USB with it. The original size is 128GB but now it only shows 32GB in Windows 10 file explorer. It is the same...
It is because the drive has more than one partitions. If other partitions was not formatted or the file system was not recognized, then the actual size of usb is less than what you can see from Windows file explorer.
You can fix this by re-partitioning the drive:
https://www.egardget.com/usb-have-less-space-than-it-says