Problem with Flash Drives?

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I've been using two flash drives to get a large number of files from one computer to another, and now, the flash drives both say that they are entirely full, when there's nothing on them! How do I fix them, or are they just gone? Why did this problem occur in the first place?

A little more detail: I initially had a Windows Vista computer. It crashed. I took my backups and put them on a Windows XP computer. The transfer that I'm talking about in this case, however, is my ferrying of files from the XP to a Mac Snow Leopard (? - the latest platform that they put out). The flash drives are both 2 GB. One is new, the other one has been in use for approximately a year. At the very least I'd like to know what has occurred so that I may prevent this from happening again.
 
Well this is hard to explain. Since Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac are totally different in soft/hardwares maybe it corrupted the flashes. This has happend to me years ago at school (2 or 3). The school had Mac's and most of the class had Windows. It's probably just picking up different signals. Try formatting them.
XP: Start-> My Computer-> Right click the drive -> format.
Vista: Logo/Start-> Computer-> right click the drive-> format.
Sometimes with XP format won't come up so go into the 'Task Pane' on the top/left side of the screen.
 
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