Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
The second double post... found this when searching for your controller, looks promising: http://flashboot.ru/files/file/285/ But this page does not look very "secure". Personally, I would open this tool in a VM only and connect the stick to that VM. Nils On 12/11/2018 05:25 PM, Eric Auer

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
I never used these tools, I had a whole night, where I read about fake-chips/sticks and read a lot of usb-stick-reviews, before I ordered a 256GB stick a few weeks ago. This is where my "information" is coming from. This is all I remember, I googled now for those links. They were not what I rea

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nils et al, So where do I find those tools you mention? I see you added some links in a second mail, but with which one should I start? ;-) > http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/chipgenius-v417-software-2017.html > http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/lacie-usb-disk-storage-format-

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
Sorry for double-posting, I forgot to add links. http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/chipgenius-v417-software-2017.html http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/lacie-usb-disk-storage-format-tool-v5.3.html http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/flash-drive-information-extractor-v85.html ht

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
There tools like ChipGenius and another one out there. They are used by german CT magazine and similar to identify those china-fakes with horrendous GB amounts of space, but in real they are just 4GB sticks. I searched a while now, but I cant find the other tool as I forgot it's name... One of

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread Jim Hall
>From a practical perspective, your drive is *1GB *("Bus 001 Device 033: ID 0457:0151 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Super Flash 1GB / GXT 64MB Flash Drive"). I haven't had a USB flash drive that *small* in years. Unless you have data on that drive you need, I'd just destroy the drive with a ha

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread Bret Johnson
That's reminiscent of what I've seen with certain kinds of cell phones, where the USB port can switch personalities and look like different kinds of devices -- say a flash disk and a speaker/microphone. I've not seen anything before that switches between two different kinds of flash drives, tho