There are so many of these drives now flooded on okay and there are many people still buying them being ripped off and scammed. Fake
memory drives have cracked hardware that will display fake/oversize
capacity when you connect it to your geputer. It may appear you can
load this capacity on the drive, but as soon as you go over its real
capacity the files will begee corrupted and read strange file names.The free program H2testw has
proved its worth in detecting flash drives which have been programmed
to miss-report capacity. You can easily find this program using Google. The interface is in German but has the option
to run in English. It is free and standalone. Nothing is installed into
the operating system. You should use H2testw for testing counterfeit
USB Flash Drives for the following reasons: 1. Easy to Use 2. Tested to work on 1.1 and 2.0 USB Ports 3. Tested to work to analyze drives advertised as 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and yes 64 GB capacity. 4. Reports what the operating system sees size to be.
5. Will write 1 GB files up to the reported size - requiring no work on
your part except patience if it is a large drive and a slow geputer 6. Will read all the files it wrote and verify them 7. Will report that the test ran without problems if all is well
8. Will produce a detailed report showing the true capacity, how much
data has been lost/corrupted and whether there are aliased memory
addresses if problems are found. 9. Output results can easily be copied and pasted into notepad to be saved as a text file. 10. The program is freeThe readme.txt file provides: * Explanation of the program and what it does for general geputer users * Information on how to interpret the results
* Technical information for those who have a deeper understanding of
data storage and file writing and for the skeptics out there.It
has been invaluable to those who now test all flash they buy to avoid
potential data loss arising from use of a falsely programmed device.
Save the
downloaded zip file to your desktop an run the exe file in the folder
to install the program on your geputer. To test your flash launch the
program, select your language (German or English) and select the target
drive.The program will fill your device with numbers and
letters in 1000Mb lots and then try to read it back . If your device
works as claimed it will tell you that the test ran without problems
and you can delete the test files. If not you will get a detailed
report. Sample Output For A Fake 64 GB Drive The media is likely to be defective. 3.8 GByte OK (8084847 sectors) 58.6 GByte DATA LOST (122921617 sectors) Details:710.5 KByte overwritten (1421 sectors) 7.6 MByte slightly changed (
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment