Guide to fix hacked USB drives

[dinkydy]

Hi Peterb, I didnt buy this one on E-Bay. Once bitten twice shy. As a Matter of Fact this on came from Coventry in the UK and was send to me in Australia. After sending Details to Kingston I never heard from them again, which makes me think I have been dudded again, but I will try to recoop my Money through my Card Provider, it may take a While but it will come back.

[peterb]

Ah - sorry, didn't realise you were in Australia... Who was the company in Coventry? Might be worth followinhg it up with Kingston again.

[dinkydy]

Hi Merple, finally I got my money back from the first one, now I have to fight for the second one, regards dinkydy

[merple]

Nice job getting your cash back on the first one.

The second one should be easier since its from a company and it was doa.
The shipping probably costs a bunch though.

[dinkydy]

Hi merple, the last one i bought turned out to be a fake too. it worked for a little while and then stopped. now it tells me it is writeprotected when i want to format it, it is not from my computer, so it must be from the stick. any idea how to kill the writeprotection so i can format it? thanking you,regards dinkydy

[dinkydy]

the shipping was free

[merple]

Sorry dinkydy, I haven't had any experience with kingston drives.
There isn't a physical slider that locks write protection on the side is there?

[alamree]

thanks a lot it worked with me


but i have a smal problem
when i plug my flash disk it doesn't recognize it and doesn't show the letter drive in my computer and my disk management

[Orbixx]

Well now, here's a guide that I haven't seen before. Pretty concise too. Though, I don't plan on buying any flash drives from Hong Kong any time soon.

[poolad]

hi,
When I use h2testw for my Kingston 32G; This is it's result:
*****
Warning: Only 31968 of 31984 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
30.3 MByte OK (62204 sectors)
31.1 GByte DATA LOST (65408260 sectors)
Details:745.2 MByte overwritten (1526212 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
30.4 GByte corrupted (63882048 sectors)
3.5 KByte aliased memory (7 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000001e5f200
Expected: 0x0000000001e5f200
Found: 0x0000000001eff000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 941 KByte/s
Reading speed: 903 KByte/s
H2testw v1.4
****
plz tell me what is this and it's mean??

(And UdTools1.0.4.5_20080910 didn't detect it)

[merple]

Originally Posted by alamree

thanks a lot it worked with me
but i have a small problem
when i plug my flash disk it doesn't recognize it and doesn't show the letter drive in my computer and my disk management

I'm afraid that if it isn't recognised by your computer any more then it is probably broken.

Originally Posted by poolad

hi,
When I use h2testw for my Kingston 32G; This is it's result:
*****
Warning: Only 31968 of 31984 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
30.3 MByte OK (62204 sectors)
31.1 GByte DATA LOST (65408260 sectors)
Details:745.2 MByte overwritten (1526212 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
30.4 GByte corrupted (63882048 sectors)
3.5 KByte aliased memory (7 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000001e5f200
Expected: 0x0000000001e5f200
Found: 0x0000000001eff000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 941 KByte/s
Reading speed: 903 KByte/s
H2testw v1.4
****
plz tell me what is this and it's mean??

(And UdTools1.0.4.5_20080910 didn't detect it)

That H2testw data would suggest that 31GB of advertised memory doesn't physically exist.
If you have recently purchased this, then contact the supplier for a refund immediately.

Have you run chipgenius on your drive?

UdTools(1.0.4.9)_20081119 can be found here:
http://forum.flashboot.ru/uploads/fi...)_20081119.rar

[nevwdr]

Hi All,

Does this only apply to USB drives or can SD cards be affected? Just I think I may have a dodgy one, not sure if the problem is a fault or a fake like these USB ones?

[merple]

Originally Posted by nevwdr

Hi All,

Does this only apply to USB drives or can SD cards be affected? Just I think I may have a dodgy one, not sure if the problem is a fault or a fake like these USB ones?

If you look on sosfakeflash there are some sdhc cards listed. So yes, this can affect sd cards too.
Did you purchase your card from a reputable retailer or get it on the cheap somewhere else?

[dinkydy]

Hi merple, I finally got my Money back for the second fake Drive from my card supplier, now they have to claw it back from paypal and i never use paypal again, because they wouldnt do anything to help.
Regards dinkydy

[poolad]

Originally Posted by merple

I'm afraid that if it isn't recognised by your computer any more then it is probably broken.




That H2testw data would suggest that 31GB of advertised memory doesn't physically exist.
If you have recently purchased this, then contact the supplier for a refund immediately.

Have you run chipgenius on your drive?

UdTools(1.0.4.9)_20081119 can be found here:
forum.flashboot.ru/uploads/files/public/Ameco_UdTools(1.0.4.9)_20081119.rar

because my posts are less than 5 i can't post Image Url to show you ChipGenius and UdTools.

[poolad]

Originally Posted by merple

I'm afraid that if it isn't recognised by your computer any more then it is probably broken.



That H2testw data would suggest that 31GB of advertised memory doesn't physically exist.
If you have recently purchased this, then contact the supplier for a refund immediately.

Have you run chipgenius on your drive?

UdTools(1.0.4.9)_20081119 can be found here:
forum.flashboot.ru/uploads/files/public/Ameco_UdTools(1.0.4.9)_20081119.rar.

Thank U