How to detect a Fake Flash Drive

Deadman_Rox

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Using H2testw.


Steps :

Get H2testw
Extract H2testw
Run H2testw on the Suspect Drive
The Results


get it from here

http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/bo/downloads/h2testw_1.4.zip

if your pen drive is a real one you will get a result like this :)

Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or
verify them again.
Writing speed: 9.00 MByte/s
Reading speed: 29.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4


if you pen drive is a fake one you will get a result like this!

The media is likely to be defective.
868.1 MByte OK (1778048 sectors)
15.1 GByte DATA LOST (31741568 sectors)
Details:11.3 GByte overwritten (23806176 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
3.7 GByte corrupted (7935392 sectors)
1.5 KByte aliased memory (3 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000036430000
Expected: 0x0000000036430000
Found: 0x00000000aa55aa55
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 13.8 MByte/s
Reading speed: 18.5 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4


unfortunately i bought 2 16GB pen drives! Damn 1 drive is fake :(
Add +rep if you got something from here...
post your result here....
so others can see :)