Trouble:
Some days back my father came up to me showing me a 32 GB pen drive which he got from a friend of him who wanted to sell this big size pen drive for 1000 Indian Rupees or 20 dollars. My father brought to me as I might be interested. Firstly I got interested to get this pen drive as this pen drive is looking like a real Kingston pen drive of 32 GB.
The deal for 32gb pen drive was sounding quite good to me, but i decided to inspect further and took a close look and found some thing suspicious with the build quality and then I plugged the pen drive in USB port on my laptop and checked the size in my computer it was showing approx 31 GB
I decided to inspect little further and started playing with the drive by transferring some files but these were quite small files which transferred to pen drive very easily and quickly
Fix:
Still I had some suspicion and decide to inspect the pen drive in device manager where the truth revealed that it was fake pen drive as it was showing no company name in manufacturer and it did not have any serial number also. This pen drive is another fake pen drive being invented at the local computer markets in India – LOL 
So If you get any pen drive claiming it to be big size original pen drive – please examine the details of the drive by connecting it to computer and check it under device manager. Following are the problem you might face with a fake pen drive like this:
1. The data in the pendrive with get corrupted due to bad sectors most of the time.
2. On coping pictures only limited amount or 512MB of data will remain intact.
3. You cannot format the Pendrive.
4. Windows Disk Check utility will hand if made to run on the pendrive.
Let’s us know you are facing any other problem on a fake pendrive, we would love to help 
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Appreciat, thanks.
I am using 8gb kingston pendrive.in this pendrive the stored datas are erased automatically when it is reinserted again. help to fix this problem wit your solution
thanks for saving me
I fell victim to the same pendrive … it’s not Kingston but KILLston …Now everything went wrong for me , do I have any chance to use it by any means…help on how to use even its 512 MB memory out of 32GB is appreciated !!
Thanks in advance !!
Anoop
thanks 2 rohit
he saves my 400 rs
this month before diwali that is on 9-10-09
on young guy came to my dad’s shop & says to me”waana buy 32gb pen drive worth rs. 400″
i asked which brand it is of
he reply “kingston” he further say “i m working at airport
i’d got it from custom ……”
i like this offer ,bit that i have no money at that time
i said can u come on 11-10-09 today i dont have enough money
he says”see i 2, if i got another custmer i give to him” till that day if stocks remain iwill com”
now on the same day im searching on net to known the correct price of it on google search, than i came across with rohit article”
Thanx a lot.
One of my friend got 512GB Kingston pen drive from his friend.
To check it we inserted in laptop and size was showing 497GB!! Then I told my friend to feed data as much as possible ( though its tough task, but atleast 100 + GB )
Then I saw your article.
Cheers..
hi i am not from india but i got lurked myself.i got a Kingston data traveler which was fake.as you say, when you connect it , the name of the manufacturer doesn’t pop up and when i put data on it , my files become corrupt and i cannot access it…..
i contacted Kingston after sales support which confirmed that it was a fake one. one way to see if it is fake.. i think the only way not to get fooled is to resist buying such pendrive for cheap prices.i wonder is there are other makes being faked….
[...] could be a case when you have a fake flash drive, we had written an extensive post on how to identify fake flash drives and this tool also will let you whether is a fake pen drive which is creating issues for [...]
i just came from delhi, and i also buy this fake kingston 32GB…
my problems:
1. The data in the pendrive with get corrupted due to bad sectors most of the time.
2. On coping pictures only limited amount or 512MB of data will remain intact.
3. Formating is possible but very slow – 3 hours and disk is also slow when copying files
HEEELP… if is possible to help with this..
thx
PS: it is different model than on picture above..
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