What it makes it difficult to verify the true memory size, and virtually impossible to hack the controller ROM, is the fact that handling of external memory (hard drives, flash, etc) has completely changed over time. Or the ROM routines of the controller are faulty - but this isn't what we are speaking about. I gather it's possible but what I've found so far makes it sound complicated & not worth the time even for a discount drive.ĭoes this German company have any programs to "fix" the drives h2testw detects as fake? Is it do-able, or AlliecatĮither the flash memory isn't what it states to be - then nothing to do, you can't restore what never existed. I did a little more reading about fake USB capacity & there seems to be less info about whether you can, or how to, format them to their proper capacity.
I just hate spending more $$ on things that are likely to fail anyway as someone said in another thread, there are only 2 kinds of drives, those that have failed & those that haven't yet. The people who gave positives may not have encountered a problem yet. So I figure the flash drives he's selling might be fake too - you could probably flip a coin on the odds. I'll probably waffle about that purchase till the last one in stock is gone the seller has had a couple of feedbacks about cards that were smaller capacity than advertised he did refund the buyers' money. I will try it if I get a USB from somewhere random. It's interesting to know a little of the story behind this program that I'd heard about. RKKS08, thanks for answering the question. They were sent to all European dealers, so buying at a shop with good reputation did not help. For a while, about 10% of most charges were "infected". Obviously these faked sticks were mixed with the good ones when they were packaged for export. Only after a while the number of files you couldn't find any more would increase. The first versions of the program h2testw (and some sister programs) were written to show the true memory size, because no other tool available would find anything wrong with these sticks. Only if your storage exceeded the size of really built in memory, the controller would delete some older files, without showing any error.
The firmware of the controller was manipulated, so from the operating system everything seemed to be OK.
These sticks, of which tenths of thousands were offered on the European market by ALL KINDS of traders and shops, had memory chips built in which had only 50% of the Gigabytes they should have had. The c't magazine I mentioned in my previous post had, in co-operation with the retailers, tried to trace down the source of faked USB memory sticks.
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