Thursday, July 22, 2010

How to repair a fake USB drive / pen drive

There are already a few guides on here about how not to get ripped off by buying one of these fake USB drive, but none on how to repair your USB drive if you have been scammed.
So heres how I did it. (complete with programs)

While you cant make your fake USB drive save more than the chip canphysicallystore, you can make the drive show the original (correct) storage size.


If your reading this then I'm assuming that (like me) you've been sold a fake USB drive.And probably spent ages surfing the web looking for some way to try and repair your USB drive.


What I found was;1) We are not alone. There are hundreds of people all looking for an answer, and 2) There are very few actual solutions, most of which are on Russian or Chinese websites.


As I searched I did find some helpful comments, a few good programs.Eventually I restored my supposedly 16GB USB drive back to it correct size of 2GB (Gigabytes){which is actually 16Gb (Gigabits), for the IT bods out there.}


And I thought how much I'd have appreciated it, if a fellow eBayer would have given me the answer/solution. So I decided to create this guide.


The link below contains a Zip file with the 4 best programs I found on the web.Two of them analyse your USB drive, giving details about the drive

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