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by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on September 19th, 2009
First off, I will assume that it is partitioned correctly and that *all* of the available space is in one partition.
To check that, right-click it, go to Properties, go to the Hardware tab, hit the Properties button on there, go to Volumes, and hit the Populate button. That should list all of the partitions on it and their size(s).
I once had a 4GB Cruzer show up as a 3.1GB drive for that reason.
Now, if you only have one partition and all of it is being used, that leads us to #2 which is irreparable.
Flash drives automatically disregard bad memory cells and reduce their reported capacity accordingly.
Age and use will cause a few of them to go bad,thus reducing capacity, but not as many as people think.
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html
However, there are other ways to abuse a Flash drive. Mine has been through the laundry a few times and spent nearly two months buried in a snow bank, only to be found in a puddle half-buried in mud.
That drive was marked 512MB, had 511MB available when I bougt it six years ago, and only holds 502MB now.
My guess is that your drive was borked from day 1; a manufacturing defect.
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