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Subject: WONGDRIVE
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banbury 27.11.11 - 10:55pm
I bought a 64gb usb flash drive/stick off ebay last year for around 35 pounds quite a bargain I thought. appropiately I decided to rename it in windows as wongdrive as it came from china. I have recently discovered there have been a lot of fake usb memory sticks on ebay and most are linked with the larger sticks for obvious reasons. apparantly they are not the advertised capacity. * +

banbury 27.11.11 - 11:01pm
they have an onboard program which fools windows into thinking they are infact the stated capacity. but it said that not all chinese sticks are fake, so the question remains how would you know if your stick was not its advertised capacity? good question. mine may not be fake but how would I know apart from going through the Iaborious process of transfering tonnes of files to the stick just to see when windows reports it as full?! * +

banbury 27.11.11 - 11:05pm
obviously if it stops after say 8gb or 16gb of files you know it cant be 64gb but surely there must be a better way of finding out than this? maybe a program you could download? I know I cant return the stick now and iam not overly fussed because it was last years money but iam now rather curious as to if mine is fake or not . LET THIS BE A WARNING TO ANYONE PURCHASING MEMORY STICKS OFF EBAY IN ANY CASE! * +

banbury 27.11.11 - 11:07pm
BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY HAVE BOUGHT THE WONG DRIVE! * +

plzgvhug 28.11.11 - 12:31am
Dont buy won hung low brand cr*p from ebay! * +

banbury 28.11.11 - 01:46am
I know its all wong isnt it? * +

proton 28.11.11 - 09:28am
you usually cant format such drives to ntfs. * +

banbury 28.11.11 - 08:15pm
apparantly according to google results some fake sticks can be returned or repaired to their original capacity. by that I assume they must mean the actual capacity rather than the advertised amount. the process is meant to identify the bad sectors of a fake drive and restore it to its actual size even if it maybe far lower than the claimed capacity. the idea is to make it a semi reliable usb stick * +

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