Hacked usb capacity (possible to un-hack?)

[AVieira]

Title describes it but, I've recently bought 2 cheap flash drives on ebay, they were advertised as 64gb drives. Turns out they are just some hacked 16gb flash drives... Big suprise huh 😀

Anyway, even tho I'm trying to get my money back and I'll most probably report the seller to ebay, I wont be sending the drives back. I just wont bother having all the work and spend some money to send them back.

SO, I wish to modify the drives to their original capacity. Why? Well, mostly for safety. If I pass the 16gb mark the data will be corrupted/lost.

Is there any non-hardcore way or is it even possible to do this?
Thanks

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Not possible.

They were fakes because they only have 16GB of flash storage chips inside them, how else do you think a pen drive works, what did you think was inside them? Bust one open and take a look.

That's why genuine higher-capacity pen drives cost more than lower-capacity ones, they've got higher-capacity flash chips.

You'd have to be magician (and a damn good one at that) to really turn 16GB's worth of chips in to 64Gb

No hacking has been done to your fakes, it's just false marking and advertising, nothing more.

 

[kango69]

I'm sure you can restore the original size through windows.
Here is a guide
http://www.howtogeek.com/235824/how-to-clean-a-flash-drive-sd-card-or-internal-drive-to-fix-partition-and-capacity-problems/

 

[AVieira]

Not possible.

They were fakes because they only have 16GB of flash storage chips inside them, how else do you think a pen drive works, what did you think was inside them? Bust one open and take a look.

That's why genuine higher-capacity pen drives cost more than lower-capacity ones, they've got higher-capacity flash chips.

You'd have to be magician (and a damn good one at that) to really turn 16GB's worth of chips in to 64Gb

No hacking has been done to your fakes, it's just false marking and advertising, nothing more.

Did you read? Perhaps you need more info.
I dont want to transform a 16gb pen to 64gb, actually the pen is already in 64gb. You plug it to the computer and it says 64gb (58.5 to be exact), HOWEVER, the drive has been hacked to show 64gb of storage when infact it's a 16gb chip. And you must be like, but you cant pass 64gb of data into it... it will stop at 16gb... no. That's the issue. You can put as much data as you want, but after 16gb it will become corrupted.

 

[AVieira]

I'm sure you can restore the original size through windows.
Here is a guide
http://www.howtogeek.com/235824/how-to-clean-a-flash-drive-sd-card-or-internal-drive-to-fix-partition-and-capacity-problems/

Will try thanks

 

[bignastyid]

Most of the time this is done with firmware not software, you'd have to find some software that would allow you to modify the drives firmware.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Not possible.

They were fakes because they only have 16GB of flash storage chips inside them, how else do you think a pen drive works, what did you think was inside them? Bust one open and take a look.

That's why genuine higher-capacity pen drives cost more than lower-capacity ones, they've got higher-capacity flash chips.

You'd have to be magician (and a damn good one at that) to really turn 16GB's worth of chips in to 64Gb

No hacking has been done to your fakes, it's just false marking and advertising, nothing more.

Did you read? Perhaps you need more info.
I dont want to transform a 16gb pen to 64gb, actually the pen is already in 64gb. You plug it to the computer and it says 64gb (58.5 to be exact), HOWEVER, the drive has been hacked to show 64gb of storage when infact it's a 16gb chip. And you must be like, but you cant pass 64gb of data into it... it will stop at 16gb... no. That's the issue. You can put as much data as you want, but after 16gb it will become corrupted.

No, never heard of that. My apologies for me rabbiting on about something I know little about.

But then I'm not daft enough to buy such items from an auction site when Amazon have genuine ones at very reasonable prices.
Is it really worth buying stuff on Ebay that only costs pocket money at reliable places?

 

[AVieira]

Not possible.

They were fakes because they only have 16GB of flash storage chips inside them, how else do you think a pen drive works, what did you think was inside them? Bust one open and take a look.

That's why genuine higher-capacity pen drives cost more than lower-capacity ones, they've got higher-capacity flash chips.

You'd have to be magician (and a damn good one at that) to really turn 16GB's worth of chips in to 64Gb

No hacking has been done to your fakes, it's just false marking and advertising, nothing more.

Did you read? Perhaps you need more info.
I dont want to transform a 16gb pen to 64gb, actually the pen is already in 64gb. You plug it to the computer and it says 64gb (58.5 to be exact), HOWEVER, the drive has been hacked to show 64gb of storage when infact it's a 16gb chip. And you must be like, but you cant pass 64gb of data into it... it will stop at 16gb... no. That's the issue. You can put as much data as you want, but after 16gb it will become corrupted.

No, never heard of that. My apologies for me rabbiting on about something I know little about.

But then I'm not daft enough to buy such items from an auction site when Amazon have genuine ones at very reasonable prices.
Is it really worth buying stuff on Ebay that only costs pocket money at reliable places?

Well its the first time I ordered a flash drive on ebay and last now 😀 I thought it was a good deal, it costed like 1/4 or less than from a reliable store, the seller credibility was good and he had over 300 units sold so..
AND I wasnt aware of hacked flash drives aswell. I started to dig when my data was starting to get completly corrupted from a certain point. And actually found out that Ebay is quite the spot for hacked usb's 😀