Comments on: Do Not Buy Fake 32 GB Sony Vaio Pen Drive

By: CoolGeek

CoolGeek — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:25:31 +0000

Thanks Daniel,

Thanks for the information.

-CG

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:11:42 +0000

Hi Guys.. I bought a Sony Vaio too. 32 gb. And the day after the eBay seller was no longer registered. So I just thought that I’d been cheated. So I asked ebay for a refund, and I got it! But now today, my drive turns up in my mail. Nice, I thought. I am totally sure that mine’s the same as yours. But I found a solution to this problem:

SOLUTION:
Format you drive with windows (right click your drive from My Computer, and click format). Then:
Test your drive with this program: http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/bo/downloads/h2testw_1.4.zip
When you have downloaded it then unzip it to the directory: C:\checkflash. Then run the program. Leave the options on the standard EXEPT from the size. Change the test size to 5000 mb. Els the test will take like forever. If you choose 5000 mb it will take around 25 min. At some point the test fails and you can see how much space your drive actually have. Then download: http://www.pcdisk.com/download.html
Install the program and run it. Find your drive and click the “+” sign to expand the options. Click the “Primary FAT32″ and then click delete in the top of the screen. After that click on the “unallocated” and then click create in the top of the screen. The settings here are a bit tricky. After you runned the test in the second step you found out the actual size of your Flash Drive. Mine was fx. 3.7 gb. Then multiply that size with 1024: 3.5 * 1024=3585. Then put in 3585 in the “Default partition geometry” box. And then press ok. When that progress is done, press the “Format” button in the top of the screen. Enter a name for your drive and click OK. And now, congratulation, your drive will hopefully work. Please leave a comment if it worked or not.
Daniel

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:36:24 +0000

Just bought a fake on eBay from xiyouji1houzhuan2010

By: gogope SK

gogope SK — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:18:52 +0000

Hi, I had the same problem, everything from China is bad quality!
I was lucky that my sony usb32gb was cheap. Now is on rubbish heap.

By: RDX500

RDX500 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:14:38 +0000

My dad just got two from HK: same problem, putting data on the stick works but reading data does NOT work, files are damaged!
Even worse: there were already some crappy chinese songs installed and NOD32 found a virus on it!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:27:29 +0000

I had the same problem with a 32gb “sony vaio” flash drive that i bought on ebay it looked real. I got it for $25 chinastore88 selld the same thing but im not sure what to believe anymore. i bought it from another person though and the day i was ready to write a complaint, he became an unregistered user. when i tried to format the 32gb flash drive it read as if there were only 8 MB. Then it said it was unable to format. And on the guys feedback other people posted the same problem and he said it was the companys fault to all of them spanding over 3-4 months it was still the company’s fault.oh well time to find a new drive i guess. hope you guys have a better experience.

By: Suhatman

Suhatman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:14:36 +0000

I’ve bought a Sony pendrive 120 GB.For the first time I was using it for keeping some pictures.I can read it back.But each time I want to connect it to the other pc, it told me to format it.When I want to format it, it showed only 8 GB instead of 120 GB.When I want to start the formatting, it told me that Windows can’t format it.Somehow I’d figured out how to get the data back by changing its autoplay.It worked normally after that.But when I want to copy a lot of movies in there, it started to have prolems again.I can’t even see the data in there anymore.I can’t open it anymore until today.

By: john

john — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:44:54 +0000

hi these memory are upgraded one, china also sells orginal,i got 32GB working fine, tested with software if it is orginal or not and came out to be orginal with full memory.
+ 5 year warranty.

By: azry

azry — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:30:33 +0000

OMG, i already bought this kind of fake pendrive
i bouht 256GB pendrive from china!

By: Ajay Kapil

Ajay Kapil — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:33:48 +0000

hi friends ,
i have also buy a kingston 80GB pen drive with 1500rs, but its not working.

By: asis nayak

asis nayak — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:02:17 +0000

I suggest not to buy these pendrives.As these are totaly fake one.The Gay peoples are selling these gray pendrve from grey markets.i was fooled hence I too fooled others and made a net profit of rs500

By: gourav

gourav — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:54:16 +0000

thanks very much Asis for your awesome idea.Even i was cheated by some fake persons selling fake pendrives.but you have given me truly an orignal idea.yr idea i believe is not a fake idea.. i too did the same thing and my net profit was 1000 rs.

By: asis

asis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:44:03 +0000

I bought five of these pen drives,due to its verry cheap price.but latter on I found these to be for nothing.
Therefore I sold these pen drives to my friends and making a net of RS500 profit

By: JohnR7

JohnR7 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:27:32 +0000

A lot of the “fake” memory is just VERY slow. Sometimes they give you a lot less memory then they claim.

By: layewaync

layewaync — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:55:26 +0000

very intresting

By: m.natarajan

m.natarajan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:49:30 +0000

hai guys,

how much rubees this pendrive

By: sushil

sushil — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:27:34 +0000

my pen drive is 32gb sony vaio
when i get the data it will get it to my pen drive but other computer when i save my data or folder its show the folder is impty
pls tel me solution

By: jD839

jD839 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:46:04 +0000

irtiza :

hi buddy i see that your thumb drive is working… tell me , did it comes with a box or something like that? … if so, can you tell me the website or a link to get connected to the site.

jD839

By: jD839

jD839 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:30 +0000

Guys’ i am also a victim of the 32GB sonyvaio flash drive…. anybody know how to make this drive works…. ? ?? ? it would be a big help…. i paid US$ 3.5 (Rs.3500 sri Lankan money) & i can’t get money back alsoo….

so instead of these posting can we came up with solution for this matter?

By: CoolGeek

CoolGeek — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:26:34 +0000

Hi HEMANT,

Please read my post.