This is interesting, if you haven't seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEn7TE4YMM
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Bryan Linton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2018-07-20 14:48:39, Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > John, > > > > 1 of 2 things is going wrong here. > > > > I'd like to offer a 3rd possibility. It's possible the drive > itself could be counterfeit. There are plenty of websites out > there with more information, but I'll include this snippet from > Wikipedia. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Counterfeit_products > > Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with > claims of having higher capacities than they actually > have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which > are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives > (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB > drive). > > When plugged into a computer, they report themselves as > being the larger capacity they were sold as, but when data > is written to them, either the write fails, the drive > freezes up, or it overwrites existing data. Software tools > exist to check and detect fake USB drives, and in some > cases it is possible to repair these devices to remove the > false capacity information and use its real storage limit. > > I did a bit of searching and found a tool called "f3" that claims > to be able to detect counterfeit drives. > > http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ > https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/ > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1011248/ > fakeflashfraud-f3-what-are-the-different-types-of-counterfeits > > John, before you continue with trying to format and label the > drive, I'd recommend you try running the f3 tool mentioned above > to be sure the drive itself isn't a fake. > > If it is, then you're most likely going to lose data if you > attempt to store any data on it. You would almost certainly want > to ask for a refund too. > > -- > Bryan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
