128GB Flash Drive...

Zen00 said:

If you listen to Windows Weekly, Paul Thourett mentions an article posted by a corporate buddy of his.

Apparently people in China when making flash memory will throw all the bad pieces away after production. Later on other people come by and take those bad pieces and make fraudulent memory sticks out of it and sell them on E-Bay. The specific company mentioned was Kingston, glad I bought Corsair.

wow that sucks...I guess it dose not pay off to buy a flash drive from a unknown site/store

Even after formatting it to NTFS, files would eventually become bad and crap.

Oh well. I guess I learned my lesson :).

Zen00 said:

My USB drive went bad a few weeks ago, I formatted it to Fat32, or ExFat, and it works now. Try that.

Also, if you know how to mess around with microprocessors, you could always open it up, find the bad sections and fuse them off.

It's too big for FAT32. exFAT isn't compatible with anything other than Windows (I believe). I'll just try and sell this thing for a few bucks.

Zen00 said:

If you listen to Windows Weekly, Paul Thourett mentions an article posted by a corporate buddy of his.

Apparently people in China when making flash memory will throw all the bad pieces away after production. Later on other people come by and take those bad pieces and make fraudulent memory sticks out of it and sell them on E-Bay. The specific company mentioned was Kingston, glad I bought Corsair.

Yeah I bought a 32 gb data traveler off ebay which turned out to be garbage counterfeit.
Lesson learned.

Zen00 said:

In other words, don't buy Kingston ANYTHING! from Ebay.

I've decided not to get any flash drives from ebay, but that's just me not wanting to throw any more money away.