Why do I have missing disk space?

[derrickgoh]

This thumb drive was originally FAT32 I think. I plug it into my Happauge PVR Rocket to record programs and as per Happauge if the thumb drive is FAT32, the record program is broken up into chunks of 2GB each. To avoid this problem I have to format the thumb drive in NTFS format.

Now I've not been paying attention to the available space on my thumb drive so I don't know when I started having missing disk space. Its a 32GB thumb drive but it shows 22GB is used and 9 GB available. However when I double click the thumb drive is totally empty. Where could the space have gone to and how do I resolve this?

 

[szeli]

does it exhibit e same behavior in Windows? if so yr drive is prob corrupted...

 

[derrickgoh]

does it exhibit e same behavior in Windows? if so yr drive is prob corrupted...

I dont have windows so dont know.

 

[szeli]

if no other OS to test hard to determine. maybe can try making a Linux live-usb stick for Mac...

https://sevenbits.github.io/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader/

 

[derrickgoh]

Does anyone know how to format a 32 GB thumb drive on a Mac in NTFS format? I googled but most of the instructions seem to be for hard disks and talk about something called Paragon.

For what its worth I have installed on my Mac the paid version of Tuxtera NTFS and its the latest version if that makes any difference.

 

[szeli]

Does anyone know how to format a 32 GB thumb drive on a Mac in NTFS format? I googled but most of the instructions seem to be for hard disks and talk about something called Paragon.

For what its worth I have installed on my Mac the paid version of Tuxtera NTFS and its the latest version if that makes any difference.

1st result when I googled...
http://tuxera.com/mac/onlinehelp/en/index.htm#page=Creating_NTFS_file_systems.htm

 

[derrickgoh]

1st result when I googled...
http://tuxera.com/mac/onlinehelp/en/index.htm#page=Creating_NTFS_file_systems.htm

That was dumb. I Should have googled for formatting with tuxtera instead. Lol

 

[sranjith]

Try changing the cluster size. That might help a bit

 

[sranjith]

Also are you sure there a no partitions already?

 

[derrickgoh]

Nope, no partitions. Anyway was able to successfully reformat a brand new FAT32 thumbdrive to NTFS with Tuxtera disk manager so will try doing the same with the thumbdrive in question once I've done clearing the videos from it.