Copied my folders onto a 2tb stick & some have gone help needed please

RolandJS said:

Unless you have backups on external media somewhere, I fear you shrank your data collection. I didn't know 2TB sticks existed.

RolandJS said:

What probably happened is that the stick, upon reaching the real byte size limit, simply rolled back to the beginning and replaced what was there with the new stuff, over and over. I think the largest legit stick is 256GB?

Kingston recently came out with a 2TB USB stick although it's more like a log than a stick. It's physically ginormous and costs well north of $2k. I've seen reports lately of bogus 2TB sticks being sold. See the links below for more info:

YouTube

https://www.instructables.com/id/Don...h-Drive-Scam!/

Whoever wrote that article doesn't know the difference between memory and storage space. But their heart is in the right place.

How much did you pay for the stick? Ebay is scrupulous about scams. Tell them first, but I don't think Chinese companies are subject to the BBB's standards, or care about the BBB.

I had some films I was storing on my D drive, because I kept putting off buying DVD-R's. When I moved into this computer, I transferred all my data from the old one. Now it's 3 years later, and I have some time to burn the movies. Oops, that folder never made the trip to either of my current machines. So I know how you feel.

RoWin7 said:

Whoever wrote that article doesn't know the difference between memory and storage space. But their heart is in the right place...

Actually, storage is memory (kinda sorta although storage is rarely referred to a being memory. In this case, it's non-volatile memory instead of volatile memory, such as RAM. Both the video and the article are accurate, especially when it comes to the fake 2TB USB sticks..

sheffieldyorky said:

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Just in case you are wondering that price if for ONE stick

At that price, you definitely got ripped off, not to mention there is no way current technology could come close to fitting 2TB of RAM into a stick that small. Just look at what a monster a legitimate Kingston 2TB USB stick is.

https://www.kingston.com/us/usb-flas...e?Capacity=2TB

Also note how expensive the legitimate ones are. You can't even buy reliable USB flash drives that have far less capacity for the price you paid.

What you got is clearly a fake; it's as phony as a $4 dollar bill. Places like Fleabay, Amazon, Alibaba, etc. are littered with these phonies. You can reformat that piece of janky junk 'til the cows come home and it's still not going to hold 2TB of data.

Hi sheffieldyorky,

I have just quickly looked at the last few posts. If you right-click the drive => select Properties => Disk Cleanup, does it show any Files to delete. I just thought that if it did it would give you some space back to perform some tasks that you said couldn't be performed because of low disk space!

I hope this helps!

Hi Paul
Thanks for contributing to my thread.

Paul Black said:

Hi sheffieldyorky,

I have just quickly looked at the last few posts. If you right-click the drive => select Properties => Disk Cleanup, does it show any Files to delete. I just thought that if it did it would give you some space back to perform some tasks that you said couldn't be performed because of low didk space!

I hope this helps!

Please see the attachments reference "Disk Cleanup"


I was advised by Megahertz

Megahertz07 said:

Download and run h2testw
Its in German, but you can set it to English.
-Format the drive as exfat or NTFS and run h2testw
It will write files to the flash disk then read.

Which I did

sheffieldyorky said:

So I went ahead and ran the test.

First I read the readme txt doc

The executable file H2testw.exe needs no installation and can be
directly run. It was developed for Windows XP and Vista. It should
also work under Windows 2000 but was only tested on XP and Vista.
Windows 9x/ME is not supported.
H2testw writes files of up to 1 GByte to the chosen destination and
names them 1.h2w, 2.h2w, 3.h2w and so on.

As you are aware I am running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit but I thought"in it for a penny in it for a pound"

It told that it was going to take 42 days to complete.

So once again I look at the drive and the properties etc. and removed 3 itemstested these three items to make sure that they were OK.
I then formatted the drive.

To be totally honest I'm going to mark this as solved and let everybody get on with their life.
As a footnote I have sent a complaint off to the Chinese website whether it will do any good or not I don't know.
But for the sake of £3.50 ( $4.53 ) I will not hold my breath.
But as a final thought many thanks one and all who have contributed to my thread.
Lesson learned I will now back up my C:\
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Sorry I forgot to add the images that you can see are reading left to right

My 2tb HDD
My 16 gb Stick works fine
My supposedly 2tb stick