Check the Remaining Memory on a USB Flash Drive
Just got a new pen-drive? A pen-drive is an external memory device that you can fill up with information and carry around with you. They do have limited memory (usually about 1GB), and it is often useful to be able to check how much you have left on it. They are also known as Flash Drives, and Memory Sticks.
Steps
Windows XP
- Open My Computer.
- Plug in the USB drive.
- When the USB drive's icon pops up, click on it. On the left pane, you should see the remaining memory.
- You can also see a pie chart of your remaining memory by right clicking the memory stick's icon and hitting "Properties."
Windows Vista or Later
- Open My Computer.
- Plug in the USB drive. You should see its icon popping up, as well as the remaining memory (x free of y, where x is the remaining memory and y is the capacity).
- You can also check the pie chart of the data, follow the same steps as the ones used for the Windows XP.
Tips
- Some Pen-drives have more memory than others. A free one might have less than a more expensive one for example.
- This technique can be used to determine the amount of space on anything you plug into a USB drive that shows up in My Computer and gets assigned a drive letter. Cameras, Put Documents, PDFs or Web Pages Onto Psps or iPods, PSPs, Get Space Back on Memory Stick Duo for PSP, all of these can be checked in the same way. has to have Disk Use enabled to check it this way.
