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Flash Drive Information Extractor – Simple tool to get detailed USB flash drive info

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In some cases, we need to know the chip model of the USB flash drive. For example: when the flash drive cannot be read, recognized, or lost capacity, we need to find the corresponding mass production tool to initialize it to achieve the purpose of repairing it. Or maybe you suspect you have bought a fake, expanded USB flash drive and want to check its authenticity. To view the detailed information of the USB storage device, in addition to USBDeview, ChipGenius, we can also use Flash Drive Information Extractor.

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ChipGenius – Chip identifier for all types of USB devices

ChipGenius (芯片精灵) is a controller chip model detection tool for USB devices, developed by hit00 from China. It can help you identify the detailed information of various USB storage devices such as USB flash drive, MP3/MP4, card reader, memory card, mobile hard disk, etc., so as to help you judge the authenticity of your device or find out the details for repairing broken flash drives. Therefore, it is a good helper for digital consumers, electronics enthusiasts, DIYers and digital maintenance personnel.

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[v12.x.x] GiliSoft USB Encryption – High safety factor of USB storage devices encryptor

USB storage devices have brought us a lot of convenience, such as: fast transfer data from one computer to another; convenient to carry around. But it also brings security risks, for example: easy to be lost, to be stolen or to be peeped. This case, it’s necessary to add password protection to the data stored on these portable devices so as to prevent other people to take unauthorized operations such like viewing, copying, deleting files inside, in order to ensure the safety of data and your personal privacy!

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Check Flash – Multi-purpose flash drive testing and maintaining tool

Check Flash (ChkFlsh for short) is a tiny and free app for testing and formatting flash drives, developed by Cherkes Mihail from Ukraine. In addition to surface testing, it also allows to check the speed of reading and writing, edit partition info, save and restore full drive and partition images, save and restore MBR, and perform full drive or partition data erasing.

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[v2.50, v3.00] MyDiskTest – Capacity expansion detector & identifier for Mobile storage devices

There are many ways to fake the displayed capacity info of any type of storage device (this is nothing new in the Chinese electronic marketplaces, where you have to have a third eye to avoid being cheated). For example, using the “subst” command to create a partition shortcut (which can be understood as a virtual partition); using “SFDISK” (hard disk partitioning tool under DOS) to modify the partition table information; using WinHex (to offset the DBR of disk to the target capacity), PC-3000 and similar tools to change disk information in the underlying hardware.

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