The trick of upgrading pendrive 4gb to 8gb

Asked By amanpreet 0 points N/A Posted on - 11/13/2012

 

I want to upgrade my 4GB pendrive. Can anyone describe the trick how can I upgrade my pendrive 4GB to 8GB?

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Answered By Scott Aust 5 points N/A #161689

The trick of upgrading pendrive 4gb to 8gb

Hi Amanpreet,

You can upgrade your pendrive to any size.. 1GB, 2GB, 40GB, even 100GB. But technically this is just for show. You can change the size of your pendrive but the actual capacity will still be the same. You can copy 8GB worth of file to your 4GB pendrive but only 4GB will be usable. The rest will be corrupted.

Anyways, here’s a download link of software called Memory Drive Increaser

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Answered By Richard Green 0 points N/A #161690

The trick of upgrading pendrive 4gb to 8gb

Hi Amanpreet,

When I saw your question, I was smiling to myself, because I searched for this same thing just last month, but honestly there is no way to increase any Pendrive or a memory card space. You are just wasting your time.

I am great in the IT field and I am honestly telling you, sites that claim they can do this are scams. Don't waste your time on them. Thanks and best of luck.

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #315053

The trick of upgrading pendrive 4gb to 8gb

If you have a 4 GB USB flash drive and you want to upgrade its capacity like extend it and add few more GB to the device, unfortunately, it is not possible. 4 GB is 4 GB and there’s no way to extend its capacity.

If you want a much bigger drive, purchase a new USB flash drive that has a much bigger space like 32 GB or 64 GB. Back in the DOS days, there is a program we use called “DriveSpace” that supposedly extends the capacity of a floppy disk. I use it frequently but unfortunately, it is not reliable.

Even if the drive becomes bigger, when you put files into it, the free space breaks down to the actual capacity of the drive. DriveSpace is a disk compression tool included in MS-DOS from version 6.0 and up. The program is designed to increase the amount of data the user can store on a disk by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly.

At present, there are much better and stronger file compression tools that you can use to make files and folders smaller to save space. One example is 7-Zip. It works on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10 including Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016.

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