In future, only buy on sites with legitimate escrow services intended for outside-of-china sales if you're dealing with the Chinese. Card Chargeback (you can always try, and it's a pretty clear cut case).
I know it doesn't do you much good at the moment, but two things to consider:ġ.
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Unplug and re-connect the drive, then reformat it using Windows or RMPrepUSB.
Recommended maximum usable partition size: 7,531.9355Mib (approx. WARNING: no memory detected at one or more locations. G: HP flash DRIVE 4 - 124.9GiB General UDisk I personally don't like the idea of buying on Taobao - as I understand they're designed only for internal sales and I doubt they have much security for foreign purchasers.
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I knew full well it was fake beforehand, but I knew I'd get my money back and if it somehow was an odd gem, I'd have a nice place to supply from. The sellers on these sites typically work based on conning someone with irresistibly cheap stuff which is fake, rather than faking more expensive stuff, as the liability is less if they're caught.Īs an example, the 64GB I bought (that ended up being a fake 16GB) was $5 cad. Really, I'd probably evaluate this on the price for the quickest idea about it. I say 16GB as it seems to be the size they've settled on as "big enough someone won't notice in time" but still cheap enough they can turn profit. Shouldn't take terribly long, and then look through some of the starting footage - if it's corrupted you should certainly be concerned. That's about the cheapest I could possibly see a 128 going for.Īnother thing you could do, particularly if you have any video about, is copy just over 16GB of it. It seems to me like your drive may be legit, as long as you paid something at least $30ish cad for it.
The quickest option here is apparently ChipGenius, which reads the firmware and may well give you a quick answer as to INVALID drives (I would still test if it says the drive is good). Since classes got out my sleep has been all over the place and my brain is veritably fried. "The firmware checking one toward the bottom" = "RMPrepUSB - Quick Size Test".