Frequently Asked Questions

Q: My Xtra-PC® drive in Windows File Explorer looks very small (~309MB). Why is that?

This is normal and expected. This is the partition that contains the StartUsingXtraPC application. The majority of the Xtra-PC® Ultra capacity is part of the Xtra-PC® Ultra operating system partition that Windows does not recognize and cannot read.

Xtra-PC® Ultra USB drives ship with 4 partitions on them. One is an EFI boot partition, one is a FAT32 partition, and two are Linux ext4 and swap partitions. The ext4 and swap are where the full capacity of the Xtra-PC® Ultra drive resides and is fully accessible in the Xtra-PC® Ultra operating system.

For example, the expected view of an Xtra-PC® Ultra 32GB drive in Windows File Explorer looks like the following: