Alcor USB Flash Drive Tools - Fix Fake USB Drives ((BETTER))

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Easy2Boot (E2B) is popular multiboot USB solution that also contains agFM and Ventoy. It supports both Legacy and UEFI.Simply copy on your bootable ISO files to the E2B USB drive and boot! Boot to DOS, Linux, Windows Install ISOs (XP>Win11),automate Windows installs, WIM files, VHD files, images of flash drives, Linux ISO+persistence, etc.

A couple of years ago I picked up a conference give-away flash drive (4GB), which at the time seemed like a pretty nice freebie. The trouble was it only every liked to play nice with my Windows machine, Linux would refuse to mount it. The headline photo is the final product, I failed to take a before picture but the leather + snap case on this USB thumb drive was hideous anyway.

The very first thing I did was use the linux command lsusb, this helped me clue in that there was something wrong (fake) with the drive. I found a forum post that helped me get started down the right path. I got a copy of ChipGenius which told me the following:

Recently SOSFakeFlash put out a call to people who managed to reprogramme a fake flash drive purchased from eBay. See Did You Manage to Reprogramme a Fake Flash Drive Bought on eBay Contributions are starting to arrive. To determine your chip set see Repairing Counterfeit Flash Drives

I ordered a bunch of 1GB usb drives from a semi-shady Chinese company. Most of them work just fine, but a couple of them won't let me format them because they are \"write-protected.\" There is no write protection switch on the device. I have exhaustively tried the following:

Then your drive is corrupt and needs the internal chipset S/W to be flashed, i.e. repairing the USB software. The steps below will lead you to get a small program to run on your USB memory-stick which is specific to your MANUFACTURER (make) and PRODUCT (model). If you don't want to go through the headache of the manufacturer's technical support then do it yourself as follows:-

It worked for me for my Kingston Data Traveler flash drive. It didn't work with all the common options for fixing the USB drive having \"write protected\", but the above solution I found after hours and hours of searching online and asking my computer-geeks colleagues.

To further expand bbalegere's answer, what I did that completely fixed my exact problem as yours was I used ChipGenuis to figure out what the controller vendor is. ChipGenuis will also tell you the contoller part number which you can use to find the correct flash tool for your exact model of flash drive since there are a lot of tools for a specific vendor.

Click on FILES, then on the right side, find the correct vendor. Mine was Phison. Click on the vendor, and that should bring up all the flash tools available for the vendor. Luckily for me, they had a flash utility tool that was able to reformat the flash drive for me. I also tried every option you did, except for the sacrificial offering - I did not have a goat handy and my dogs are just too damn cute. After spending hours, this is the only thing that would work for me.

It's highly likely that all your drives are in fact \"fake\" - they either report a larger capacity than they actually have, they use substandard factory-rejected flash chips, or both. This is extremely common: in fact, it's virtually guaranteed that any unbranded flash memory bought from China is going to be bad. (I've even got bad name-brand SD cards from \"trusted\" Amazon sellers.) The only way to guarantee that you're getting a good product is to buy from a reputable reseller (Newegg, Amazon (and not a third-party \"marketplace\" merchant), etc.). Even then, it's a good idea to run h2testw on it before you use it to store files.

This was a brand new, generic, 8GB flash drive I wanted to create a multiboot flash drive with. It came formatted as FAT32, though oddly a little larger than most 8 GIGAbyte flash drives I've come across. Approximately 127MB was listed as \"used\" by Windows. I never discovered why. The end usable space was about what I normally expect from a 8GB drive (approx 7.4 GIBIbytes).

I had a few more of these. The second one failed similarly (read only) today. Out of the remaining, two were detected as empty card readers/unformatted drives, depending on shaking (faulty contact). One was detected as 1/3 full, and had an odd volume name.

While this is a little worrying, evidently the drives actually do have near-8GB capacity, as verified by a tool often successfully used to detect fake flash drives. The use of a Micro SD card rather than a marked flash memory module makes it near impossible to reflash the drive, since Alcor's drive flashing tools expect the memory model as a parameter. I think I'll just throw the whole lot out.

Then format it under this program, exit WBFS Manager, Start, and run Computer Management. Then select Disk Management from the left side of the screen, click on your flash drive and format under windows and the flash drive is working again.

Most adapters that cannot be booted from work fine for data-onlydisks. The differences between SRM and ARC could also get youpre-packaged IDE CDROMs and hard drives in some (former WindowsNT)systems. SRM versions exist (depends on the machine type) that canboot from IDE disks and CDROMs. Check the machine specific sectionfor details.

The Miata SRM can boot from IDE CDROM drives. IDE hard disk bootis known to work for both MiataGL and MX5 disks, so you can rootFreeBSD from an IDE disk. Speeds on MX5 are around 14 Mbytes/secassuming a suitable drive. Miata's CMD646 chip will support up toWDMA2 mode as the chip is too buggy for use with UDMA.

The EB64+ SRM can boot both 53C810 and Qlogic1040 SCSI adapters.Pitfall for the Qlogic is that the firmware that is down-loaded bythe SRM onto the Qlogic chip is very old. There are no updates forthe EB64+ SRM available. So you are stuck with old Qlogic bits too.I have had quite some problems when I wanted to use Ultra-SCSIdrives on the Alpine with Qlogic. The FreeBSD kernel can becompiled to include a much newer Qlogic firmware revision. This isnot the default because it adds hundreds of kBytes worth of bloatto the kernel. In FreeBSD 4.1 and later the isp firmware iscontained in a kernel loadable module. All of this might mean thatyou need to use a non-Qlogic adapter to boot from.

Tincup has 5 64-bit PCI slots, one 1 32-bit PCI slot and oneEISA slot (which is physically shared with one of the 64-bit PCIslots). There are 2 separate PCI buses, PCI0 and PCI1. PCI0 has the32-bit PCI slot and the 2 top-most 64-bit PCI slots. PCI0 also hasan Intel 82375EB PCI/EISA bridge that drives things like the serialand parallel ports, keyboard/mouse etc. PCI1 has 4 64-bit PCI slotsand a Symbios 810 SCSI chip. VGA console cards must be installed ina slot connected to PCI0.

With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is providedfor SCSI-I, SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals, including harddisks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT, 8mm Exabyte,Mammoth, and DLT), medium changers, processor target devices andCD-ROM drives. WORM devices that support CD-ROM commands aresupported for read-only access by the CD-ROM drivers (such ascd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writingsupport is provided by cdrecord(1), which is a part ofthe sysutils/cdrtools port in the PortsCollection.

In case you want to change the internal hard drive: the internalflat cable running from the PCI riser board to the 2.5\" hard drive has afiner pitch than the standard SCSI flat cables. Otherwise it wouldnot fit on the 2.5\" drives. There are also riser cards that have astandard-pitch SCSI cable attached to it, which will fit anordinary SCSI disk.

Rawhides are available with a 8 64-bit PCI / 3 EISA slotexpansion backplanes (called ``Saddle'' modules). There are 2separate PCI buses, PCI0 and PCI1. PCI0 has 1 dedicated PCI slotand (shared) 3 PCI/EISA slots. PCI0 also has a PCI/EISA bridge thatdrives things like the serial and parallel ports, keyboard/mouseetc. PCI1 has 4 PCI slots and a Symbios 810 SCSI chip. VGA consolecards must be installed in a slot connected to PCI0. 1e1e36bf2d