It’s easy to get one USB flash drive online or from local shop, and many users buy USB flash drives without thinking whether the drive is for real or fake. Common symptoms of a fake or corrupted flash drives haven’t been learned by all users. The major problem of using fake USB flash drive is high risk of drive corruption and data loss. Such issues happen when large amount of data is saved on these storage devices. For example, if the flash drive user bough claims 32 GB capacity, and users will never know the actual capacity if he only uses 2-15GB. But when he tries to store more files and it may get the error message saying “less capacity” and flash drives goes corruption after data transferring is done.
How to identify fake USB flash drive
In most cases, fake flash drive is produced to show large capacity, but actually it does not. Though producers try to repair them, it is hard to get them repaired as such drives adopts defective memory chips. Such drives may be sold at lower price with nameless brand, but many users are not satisfied with quality and severe result which can be data loss. Here lists typical issues of fake flash drive:
 Costumer buys 128GB USB flash drive but it fails store 128GB files, which only works for 64GB.
 When users tries to store more data to the drive, it corrupts and data gets lost.
 USB flash drive might be copycat and doesn’t guarantee quality
 Fake flash drive may get replaced with new genuine one, but sometimes it is harder to retrieve missing files from it.
 It’s difficult to retrieve detailed info of vendor or product family
 Fake flash drives are usually sold with low price
Major steps of repairing fake USB flash drive
To repair damaged flash drive, users should contact vendor or manufacturers and request after sale service. But there are chances that damaged flash drive stores important data such as emails, documents, photos, etc. The repairing of damage hard drive may damage or permanently erase data, as memory chip might be replaced with new one. Therefore, before sending the drive to vendor, users should try free data recovery software first to scan and restore lost data. Such tools can be download easily from the Internet. Once all desired data is restored and backed up, customers can replace it or get it repaired.