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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Trouble 1 :

I have a peculiar problem.When i try to open few websites in my office like  www.cnnibn.com, its not loading..The page is blank.But when i use proxy server I can able  to load that website and some other websites like www.ndtv.com is not opening and I m getting blank page.   – Praveen

Fix:

This problem occurs due to two reasons, your office IT team have blocked these particular domains on their DNS, or they have blocked these sites using CHOSTS file entry for these sites. If you want to access them in such a case, you can keep using proxy, or change the DNS to Open DNS or Other DNS as suggested in this Article. Also check for the CHOSTS entries.

Trouble 2 :

When I try to open my Network Connections I get an error message "The Network Connections Folder was unable to retrieve the list of Network adapters on your machine. Please make sure that the Network Connections Service is enabled and running". – Amit

Fix:

This Problem usually occurs when there is some problems in starting of windows network service, see the tutorial on Windows Network Services to solve this problem.

Trouble 3 :

When i bought my laptop some things were not there, but later on on found (auto exec.bat,bootmgr,config.sys,hiberfil.sys,pagefile.sys,$recycle.bin,boot,config.msi) these ones there. I don’t from where  all this came from. – Rohit

Fix:

These are windows system files which are always there and are always hidden and not visible to users. Some times accidently or due to some software or malicious script, this settings get enabled. See this tutorial on hiding the system files to solve this problem.

Trouble 4 :

I am using windows xp sp2. My problem is when I am starting the computer the windows xp logo is coming very slowly (blurred view to normal view).  Please tell what the problem could be? – Mohammed

Fix:

This problem occurs not because of windows, but usually because of old and dusty monitors. If that is a CRT monitor, the chances are high that its getting old and the tube is getting dusty and weak in power. See this article on flicker of old monitors.

Trouble 5 :

I downloaded a game called DELTA FORCE,(trial version)and later uninstalled from my computer.  But, thereafter one file named DF7BDE.tmp in temporary folder could not be deleted even using after `Remove on next boot’ application.  What to do? Is it a virus? How to delete this? – Rajkumar

Fix:

There are some applications which might be holding the temp file. We have already covered this problem in this article on Unable To delete a file in windows.

Hope you find these solutions useful. You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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Trouble 1 :

I have to problem in my computer in which the Internet Explorer at the middle just stops and gives an option to send or Don’t send error comes suddenly.   – Nishu

Fix:

Internet Explorer sometimes crashes due to add-on which are active on it. Some add-ons are not well written and may cause errors in Internet Explorer. It will display error like “Iexplore.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close” See this article on Internet Explorer crashes.

Trouble 2 :

When I open any folder on my computer, it makes two folders of its same name one is detected which is of 523 kb and antivirus delete it but other of 1.23 MB which cannot be healed or deleted by antivirus this folder is of type application 3.1.12.1 . Please provide a better solution to this problem.   – Jaswinder

Fix:

This is a virus called new-folder virus. To fix this virus, see this article on How To Remove New Folder Virus.

Trouble 3 :

I am accessing a for sure secure site, probably super encrypted. Army Knowledge Online- official army portal. Certificate Error continue anyway(not recommended) get me there. But its when I try to access the army email that it won’t let me go. I have tried certificate install wizard, internet options to disable everything and still no guess as to what is causing it. Searched web for answers but nobody seems to have it as severe.  – Sunshine

Fix:

This is a problem many of us face due to wrong date settings. Have a look at all the possible reasons and method to fix it here, Security Certificate Error While Opening Web-sites.

Trouble 4 :

I have a flash drive,when I copy something in it, and then plug into any other computer it shows nothing.   -  Shair

Fix:

This is a sign of faulty of fake pen drive. You can see more such problems and solutions in out article Solutions to Top 10 USB Pen Drive Problems

Trouble 5 :

My computer was infected by virus called "sality.ab" . I have removed virus using quick-heal  antivirus but now all my folder that was previously infected are automatically hidden and "show hidden files & folder " of folder option doesn’t work. I have changed it to "show hidden files" but it automatically come back to "do not show". – Shirish

Fix:

Many Viruses create the problem of hidden files and folder being disabled. This is a way by which viruses keep themselves hidden. But there is a registry hack to fix this problem. Read more about the hack in our article on Folder options disabled by Virus / Trojan.

You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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We just got a quite common problem regarding pen drives, one of our reader Emmanuel Ayivi sent us a problem regarding pen drive detection.

When ever I insert my (4GB my flash) pen drive into my PC and any other PC I am
unable to open it. The message that am prompted with is “insert disk into drive”

As it’s clear from the message in quotes, this problems occur when you insert when your removable drive to your USB port, it detects your removable drive but throws an error window saying – Please Insert a Disk into Drive \ Device when you try to open it.

One of the most possible cause of this issue when you have a removable drive which try to get a drive letter which is already reserved.

This could happen due to the default behavior of Windows XP when you may have e: drive assigned to a network drive or other hardware drive and removable pen drives tries to occupy e: drive as drive letter.

Fix:

In order to resolve the issue, use the following methods given below:

Method 1:

Insert the removable disk in the removable drive before you start your computer. But in this case, make sure that the first boot device in BIOS is not USB drive, else computer may not boot at all.

Method 2:

1. Log in as Administrator account in windows or any other account with administrative privileges

2. Insert your removable disk into the USB port.

3. Click Start, now right click on my computer and select manage

4. Now, click Disk Management

5. Right click on your removable drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths under Disk Management ( you can find your drive easily through size )

6. Change the drive letter some other drive letter like X: or Z: which is not reserved by some other drive on windows.

7. That’s it! Done.

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