Reducing Size of USB Flash Drive...

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My question is related with USB Flash Drive (Pen Drive). Somebody told me that formating a flash drive reduces its size by 1MB. I didn't believe and tried, and to my suprise the size did reduced by 1MB.

Can anybody have any idea why this is happenning? :?:

No problem with me. I have formatted my flash drive many times. The size remains same.

I have a EXIGo 256 MB Flash Drive. The original capacity it shows up was 252 MB. After formating it showed 251 MB.

Can somebody post their effective capacities

The space u find missing is taken up by the file system (FAT32/NTFS) so nothing to worry about.

yes !! there is a difference of 1MB..when u format between fat32 and ntfs .thats due to the cluster size difference bw fat32 and ntfs