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Pendrive problems

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Matthew Wai, 2012/06/28.

  1. 2012/06/28
    Matthew Wai

    Matthew Wai Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Recently I did the following test on my two pendrives, Kingston and Silicon-Power.

    After saving three identical files on Kingston and Silicon-Power, I immediately deleted them all and then recovered them all with Recuva.
    All files recovered from Kingston are intact but those from Silicon-Power are corrupted.

    Does the result show that my Kingston pendrive is of higher quality and reliability?
     
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  2. 2012/08/19
    tigerbright

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    Your recovery program may not support the Silicon-Power flash drive or may have a virus
     
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  4. 2012/08/19
    SpywareDr

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    Does the Silicon-Power use hardware encryption?
     
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  5. 2012/08/19
    Matthew Wai

    Matthew Wai Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Silicon-Power pendrive had been formatted before testing, no virus could survive.
    Files recovered from this pendrive are sometimes corrupted but sometimes intact, the problem should not lie in the recovery program.
     
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  6. 2012/08/19
    Matthew Wai

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    No any hardware and software encryption is ever used in the Silicon-Power pendrive.
     
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  7. 2012/08/20
    SpywareDr

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    Sounds like a defective pendrive then.
     
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  8. 2012/08/20
    TonyT

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    Some thumb drives come with a hidden partition for the U3 software (or similar proprietary software). These can interfere with recovery tools. I always delete the U3 junk, then delete all partitions and start from scratch.
     
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