How to fix "fake" pendrives

[VTNC]

1. Click here to download PortFree Production Program version 3.27.
2. Extract it and run it. You can use 7-zip, IZArc or the latest version of WinRAR to decompress 7-zip.
3. The interface is kinda ****, but that's because it's translated (badly) from chinese or something. It should show a list of all USB flashdrives connected to your computer. Don't click on "Check Flash" or it will disconnect the pendrive, instead, click on "OPTION"
4. Clink on the "Flash Test" tab. Check only the box "Low Level Format" and set Mode to "All Blocks".
5. Click on the "Capacity Adjust" tab. Here you'll set the real size of your flash drive. Fake pendrives are usually 128 to 256 MB flash drives with that report a fake capacity that's way bigger. This fixes this. Try a higher capacity FIRST.
6. Click on the "Others" tab. Check "Removable"
7. Click "OK" and you'll be back at the main window. Click "RUN" and the process will begin.
8. Wait until it ends.

Now you'll have a pendrive that, despite being smaller than advertised, will work like a normal pendrive.

[Dirge]

Could you please tell me what a fake pen drive actually is? Do they intentionally miss represent their size, or is it an error?

[GokuSS2]

Could you please tell me what a fake pen drive actually is? Do they intentionally miss represent their size?

O_o? He says what they are in the post.

Good info VTNC.

[Convert]

Doesn't seem to detect any of my pendrives.

[Dirge]

Yea I see that under step 5. It is bizzare that you can be duped into buying fake pen drives.

[just brew it!]

IMO a much better solution would be to only buy name-brand pendrives in the first place. If the manufacturer is shady enough to mis-represent the size of the drive, they probably don't give a damn about product quality either. Do you really want to trust your data to something like that?

[Spyder22446688]

I have some old ballpoint bics. Is there any chance that they were labeled incorrectly, and perhaps have a small bit of memory, like 16 or 32MB?

[thegst]

Spyder, BIC pens as manufactured are ill-advised to use as USB storage devices.

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I hear they just leak memory all over the place.

[Flying Fox]

And I was talking to my friends last night about real fake pendrives in China in which they played the switcharoo game and you only got the empty shell when you get home. I don't think in that case any steps will help.

[keshman87]

real fake pendrives

Does this mean they are normal???!??? Dam oxymorons

[FireGryphon]

What's a pen drive?

[Flying Fox]

What's a pen drive?

Pendrive, thumbdrive, usbdisk, flashdisk... they all mean the same thing.

[dextrous]

What's a pen drive?

Pen Drive is one of the first USB flash drives to come out, so now many people incorrectly identify all USB flash drives as Pen Drives. It's the same thing as calling all tissues Kleenexes or copies Xeroxes. Same thing applies for thumb drive or jump drive. They are all product lines of USB flash drives.

[VTNC]

And I was talking to my friends last night about real fake pendrives in China in which they played the switcharoo game and you only got the empty shell when you get home. I don't think in that case any steps will help.

A friend of mine got an "8 GB" pendrive at Hong Kong as change for something and gave it to me and it didn't work. I used the above method to make it work again as an ordinary 128 MB pendrive.

[Flying Fox]

And I was talking to my friends last night about real fake pendrives in China in which they played the switcharoo game and you only got the empty shell when you get home. I don't think in that case any steps will help.

A friend of mine got an "8 GB" pendrive at Hong Kong as change for something and gave it to me and it didn't work. I used the above method to make it work again as an ordinary 128 MB pendrive.

At least you got something. You would hate to get an empty shell.

[MrDuc]

1. Click here to download PortFree Production Program version 3.27.
2. Extract it and run it. You can use 7-zip, IZArc or the latest version of WinRAR to decompress 7-zip.
3. The interface is kinda ****, but that's because it's translated (badly) from chinese or something. It should show a list of all USB flashdrives connected to your computer. Don't click on "Check Flash" or it will disconnect the pendrive, instead, click on "OPTION"
4. Clink on the "Flash Test" tab. Check only the box "Low Level Format" and set Mode to "All Blocks".
5. Click on the "Capacity Adjust" tab. Here you'll set the real size of your flash drive. Fake pendrives are usually 128 to 256 MB flash drives with that report a fake capacity that's way bigger. This fixes this. Try a higher capacity FIRST.
6. Click on the "Others" tab. Check "Removable"
7. Click "OK" and you'll be back at the main window.
   tClick "RUN" and the process will begin.
8. Wait until it ends.

Now you'll have a pendrive that, despite being smaller than advertised, will work like a normal pendrive.

The link you got is nothing, please post again. Thanks a lot.

[satish33173]

plz help me to fix my fake pendrive
the link u give there is nothing to download

if have somthing so plz sand me at
s9810133173@yahoo.com
or
gemini_satish@hotmail.com
thanx
satish

1. Click here to download PortFree Production Program version 3.27.
2. Extract it and run it. You can use 7-zip, IZArc or the latest version of WinRAR to decompress 7-zip.
3. The interface is kinda ****, but that's because it's translated (badly) from chinese or something. It should show a list of all USB flashdrives connected to your computer. Don't click on "Check Flash" or it will disconnect the pendrive, instead, click on "OPTION"
4. Clink on the "Flash Test" tab. Check only the box "Low Level Format" and set Mode to "All Blocks".
5. Click on the "Capacity Adjust" tab. Here you'll set the real size of your flash drive. Fake pendrives are usually 128 to 256 MB flash drives with that report a fake capacity that's way bigger. This fixes this. Try a higher capacity FIRST.
6. Click on the "Others" tab. Check "Removable"
7. Click "OK" and you'll be back at the main window. Click "RUN" and the process will begin.
8. Wait until it ends.

Now you'll have a pendrive that, despite being smaller than advertised, will work like a normal pendrive.

[UberGerbil]

Yea I see that under step 5. It is bizzare that you can be duped into buying fake pen drives.

They're pretty common in the usual piracy havens. A friend of mine bought one in Bangkok -- it was about half the $/GB price you'd find here -- and it turned out to be far smaller than claimed (and, I suspect, not particularly reliable). And by "claimed" I'm not just referring to the packaging: it actually reported itself to Windows as 8GB or whatever but was full when filled with far less data.

As JBI says, you get what you pay for. NAND that doesn't pass QA at the factory goes somewhere, right?

[king_kilr]

Yea I see that under step 5. It is bizzare that you can be duped into buying fake pen drives.

My aunt buys in bulk and resells them, she gets a fair amount of one that are borked like this.

[morphine]

plz help me to fix my fake pendrive
the link u give there is nothing to download

if have somthing so plz sand me at
s9810133173@yahoo.com or gemini_satish@hotmail.com thanx satish

Please try to use proper english

Also, I pretty much doubt that anyone will give you special treatment via e-mail, but it's your call.

[posti]

[dustyjamessutton]

Check out this pendrive.

https://www.ironkey.com/

[grantmeaname]

We have two onetime posters in this thread. Wow.

Fox, in your experience, has someone else ever signed up and then posted only one smiley?

[Flying Fox]

Fox, in your experience, has someone else ever signed up and then posted only one smiley?

Usually it can be spammers hiding tracker links in the text, but I did not find any.

[morphine]

Fox, in your experience, has someone else ever signed up and then posted only one smiley?

Usually it can be spammers hiding tracker links in the text, but I did not find any.

Same here.