The binary data at 0:38 decoded from ASCII is: "Congratulations, you wasted your time!!" I feel bad now.
@junosoft4 жыл бұрын
haahaahaaha
@destructivforce28944 жыл бұрын
at least you saved time for anyone reading this
@olfmombach2604 жыл бұрын
I was just about to write a comment asking people to waste their time finding out what was written in binary there
@burkhard12564 жыл бұрын
I also wasted my Time :(
@ProDiamondz4 жыл бұрын
Lmao same
@anic17164 жыл бұрын
This video should be called: How to scam people by faking disk capacity.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
the youtube algorithm doesn't really like that title though
@malwaretestingfan4 жыл бұрын
Aka, alternative use of a informative video but hell, there are a lot of online tutorials / informations too about this.
@mariocamspam724 жыл бұрын
@@malwaretestingfan yea
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Now you can make a 16 exabyte drive that really only has 16 gigabytes!
@zai-tm4 жыл бұрын
@Sortilax - Make your Life Easier he already did that in "how to stereomix"
@SKCro. Жыл бұрын
1:19: They might be confusing the "max storage space" limit with the "file size" limit. FAT32 *does* have a 4 GB *per-file* limit. However, it can be used on drives up to 2 TB.
@justgapp4 жыл бұрын
3:34 Honourable mention: "I reverse data loss, Saving you from your angry boss!"
@cassiusdalcazarosta80104 жыл бұрын
Damn you proto!
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
*H A HA HAHAAHAHAHA*
@SurmenianSoldier4 жыл бұрын
**ANGERY**
@haseenabadshah53814 жыл бұрын
68 likes epik
@LucyWings4 жыл бұрын
*BAD FILES AND MALWARE, COULD ENTER YOUR COMPUTER!*
@slavboii4204 жыл бұрын
These are the types of drives saying 1GB in size but it cannot store more than 500MB of data... Anyways informative video!
@slavboii4204 жыл бұрын
I just told a reference there...
@slavboii4204 жыл бұрын
@Lucas Zhu yep, exactly
@kreozello4 жыл бұрын
My phone: have 4gb System: *I'mma take 2 of them, have fun!* Me: ...
@purrplaysLE4 жыл бұрын
@@kreozello Some phones have “16 gigabytes” but end up having like 8 gigabytes because system always takes up half of it. I can relate
@cscscscss3 жыл бұрын
@Lucas Zhu Imagine a floppy disk turning out to be actually a 1 TB USB flash
@burkhard12564 жыл бұрын
1:00 Binary Translation: Congratulations, you wasted your time!!
@elfakyn4 жыл бұрын
Actual scams will edit the drive at the firmware level, so you can't tell that something is wrong. It will happily write files that are too large without any errors, you'll only see problems when you try to read back the data. A format will similarly not restore the true size, because the size is misreported at the firmware level, and the firmware is programmed to allow writing out of bounds.
@IrisGalaxis4 жыл бұрын
So how could it be fixed?
@itsCh4rl1e4 жыл бұрын
I ended up in possession of a scam phone a while ago that reported it had 32GB to most application though AIDA64 reported, correctly, that it was 2GB, so there must still be ways to check the size
@gabrielandy92724 жыл бұрын
aplications that write/check the data can report the true actual size, but they can't fix they just allow you to make a smaller partition.
@traister1014 жыл бұрын
@@IrisGalaxis It can't be fixed in the sense you get the advertised storage although you can use a program to see how much it actually has by writing data to it and then reading it back
@IrisGalaxis4 жыл бұрын
@@traister101 Obviously you can't get the advertised storage when it isn't there. What I meant was could you fix the firmware so it reports the right capacity therefore avoiding writing data to nonexisting storage space.
@atelie.benedictus4 жыл бұрын
I have one of these flash drives that shows 1 TB of space. Yeah, I know, it's impossible, but unfortunately my father gets scammed pretty easily. (damn chinese) Anyways, I managed to "fix" it using f3 on Linux. It told me the real capacity of the drive, which was 7 GB, and created a partition to limit the writing space.
@minecrafter90994 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't trust it though. Just throw it in the garbage and buy a proper 8GB drive, 5$ should do the trick (or even less, if you buy a shitty one :D)
@atelie.benedictus4 жыл бұрын
@@minecrafter9099 Ikr, but I'm giving it some use for the time. Not gonna risk to put anything important on it though
@KXQ4 жыл бұрын
it's not impossible. it's been done. it's $500 for a 1tb USB drive
@atelie.benedictus4 жыл бұрын
@@KXQ Yeah, I mean, it's impossible for a 5 to 20 dollar FLASH DRIVE. Forgot to mention that
@CreeperDaGuy4 жыл бұрын
@@alandarrin unless your in chinaa
@LumaControl4 жыл бұрын
Flytech, I just want to say your videos are amazing. No, really. You find all the hidden tricks, oddities and interesting facts inside operating systems, explain everything in a way that is easy to understand for everyone, and upload regularly to keep the audience, including me, very amused and informed. Thanks!
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
@DaVince212 жыл бұрын
Fully agree with this. It's all very interesting.
@septercat2 жыл бұрын
@@DaVince21 Imagine replying 1 year later
@DaVince212 жыл бұрын
@@septercat I don't have to, I did just that yesterday. Was reminded of this video again recently and wanted to show my appreciation. ☺️
@FlyTechVideos2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@realcartoongirl4 жыл бұрын
you know its fake when you bought a 2tb drive and it actually gave you 2tb instead of 1.8tb
@broodjenoodles3 жыл бұрын
True
@cycrothelargeplanet3 жыл бұрын
Tebibyte (windows uses that but calls it a terabyte) vs terabyte
@ITAC854 жыл бұрын
0:41 "Congratulations, you wasted your time!"
@degamersspelen64683 жыл бұрын
trueee
@petermarshall16344 жыл бұрын
4 people who bought chinese 1tb drives on ebay disliked this video.
@64R1M3 жыл бұрын
What about flytech haters?
@CubeBag4 жыл бұрын
I heard that when fake storage USB drives and SD cards are sold it's actually done by spoofing the microcontroller so that it reports a different amount of space to the OS than what it actually contains. Isn't this different than spoofing the FAT like in the video? The fake storage sizes on commercially available fake USB drives persist even after formatting it (I think).
@user-ri1ft1gf2z4 жыл бұрын
That's true but spoofing the controller is much harder
@spitfire77724 жыл бұрын
If Linus would seen this video, he wouldn't bought that 1 tb MicroSD...
@kayleighmoore69514 жыл бұрын
*mega mega double double triple triple OOF*
@FluffyFoxUwU4 жыл бұрын
this is true
@gamermapper4 жыл бұрын
It has hacked firmware while this video is about hacking the software
@isaacbenmhidi28454 жыл бұрын
@@gamermapper what is the difference between firmware and software? Firmware are like operating system?
@isaacbenmhidi28454 жыл бұрын
I have an sd card that i can't format or change anything inside... so its problem is that firmware right ?
@4TechGuns4 жыл бұрын
Nobody noticed at the intro you can see the text “bzzzzzz” flying with the fly
@madbanana223 жыл бұрын
In some videos here is sound of flying fly)
@hanniaedithmartinezadame7944 жыл бұрын
Thanks, now I will know if im going to be scammed xd
@jondycz4 жыл бұрын
Thanks now I know how to scam
@powerflame4 жыл бұрын
@@jondycz yes officer this comment right here
@malwaretestingfan4 жыл бұрын
@@jondycz This is the right mindset. Gotta get that money.
@seemscool583 жыл бұрын
Ok HEMA xd
@anonymouscyborg56102 жыл бұрын
@@jondycz Sigma mindset
@JordanViknar4 жыл бұрын
1:12 The reason for the confusion is that Windows's format tool actually only allows formatting hard drives in FAT32 if they are under (or equal to ?) 32 GB.
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
haha Linux USB multiple partitions and 128GB FAT32 go format format
@JordanViknar4 жыл бұрын
@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 I think they also work on Windows. Well, for the 128 GB partition, if you're using an external tool, such tools can run on Windows.
@YitocukKilic3 жыл бұрын
What? I thought fat32 supported 2TB.
@alexaipaw3 жыл бұрын
@@YitocukKilic it does, but big windows propaganda doesn't let you go format FAT32 above 32 gigs
@superprobablylevel2 жыл бұрын
fat (humor)
@CZghost4 жыл бұрын
1:07 - Well, thank you for featuring my comment in your video :) That explanation is very helpful and quite surprising. I never noticed the used up space of a fresh clean drive. That makes sense and it seems quite easy to configure.
@soullessleftover84274 жыл бұрын
People who say: _"FAT32 can only have 32GB!"_ Me: *Hold my FAT32 Format*
@thunderskrup41614 жыл бұрын
_ italic _ * Bold * - strike -
@mariocamspam724 жыл бұрын
@@thunderskrup4161 -how is this man-
@mariannmariann20524 жыл бұрын
@Limer Mixel __italic__ **bold** --strike--
@AchmadBadra4 жыл бұрын
2^32
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
@@thunderskrup4161 *Bold* _italic_ -strike- wow it rally worked
@unknownaccount47834 жыл бұрын
Wow, hand/notebook reveal gonna make 3 EB drive, which holds only 4 gb edit: again powerlevel10k in video edit 2: i actually have 2 tb external drive
@1e10014 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming it's going to be an NTFS drive
@ravarcheon3 жыл бұрын
how does one pull this off with ntfs
@shaunclarke944 жыл бұрын
Just be sure to select the right disk when doing a "clean" in diskpart! Also I believe there are other methods used to "fake" drive capacity as well.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Yes. Hardware mods
@shaunclarke944 жыл бұрын
@@FlyTechVideos well likely firmware/register chabges in the flash controller.
@DamienPup3 жыл бұрын
@@shaunclarke94 yes, by modifying the firmware of the controller you make make it display any capacity you want.
@SheIITear4 жыл бұрын
I found some chinese usb sticks I had bought few years ago and flashed them back to original, they were only 4gb, but sold as 64gb. The biggest I was able to make them was 2tb.
@boxritter4 жыл бұрын
Can I change the "size" on windows 10?
@SheIITear4 жыл бұрын
@@boxritter If you can find the correct flash tool for your usb.
@windowsfan954 жыл бұрын
Check out this video by vwestlife where he shows of a fake 1 Terabyte usb thumb drive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKmtl3Zpn6iDjq8
@feefre4 жыл бұрын
at first i was confused because of everytime i reformated XP on my main pc yeears ago i used FAT32, then people said it can only hold 32gb (when my hdd was 80), thanks for the aclaration!
@Austeja6084 жыл бұрын
@@EMREOYUN you need to use disk part, or partition manager
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile Linux allows multiple partitions on USB drives and 2TB FAT32.
@_____._4 жыл бұрын
@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 Arch gang
@sikorsp224 жыл бұрын
4:46 Linux cursor changes to Windows cursor
@petermarshall16344 жыл бұрын
I think it's a VM
@malwaretestingfan4 жыл бұрын
It's a VM.
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
It's not a "Linux cursor". Linux does not have one specified cursor for it. Linux is distributed in "distributions" in many "flavors" and not just one.
@user-kx5es4kr4x4 жыл бұрын
For anyone who doesnt know, its Pop!_OS
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Aaron Renny Varghese Well, it's part of one distro, so it is sort of valid as a "Linux cursor". btw i use artix
@raz02294 жыл бұрын
You are telling me that my 999 terabytes USB flash drive is fake?
@CreeperDaGuy4 жыл бұрын
I have a 9999999 friskbyte usb no undertale frisk tho :(
@CreeperDaGuy4 жыл бұрын
Well idk
@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr4 жыл бұрын
ya it fake Also 1 PB or 1000TB disks are well underway so yeah
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Why is my 16 exabyte drive overwriting data?
@spookyscaryskeletonsmith28404 жыл бұрын
OHOHO, IS FUNNY BECAUSE HE DOESNT OWN USB, ohoho
@SimpIeC4 жыл бұрын
oh i remember when i bought a 64gb usb thinking it would be at least 8gb. I was surprised when I saw that it didn't even have enough space to format it some file system
@ssduser76874 жыл бұрын
me: THERES FLY IN HERE fly: *flys over the laptop laptop: * gets a blue screen me: AHHHHHHHHHH GET OVER HERE YOU FREAKING FLYYY
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Haha Linux is not prone to bugs as easily, I have had less Kernel Panics than BSODS on Linux.
@nsg6504 жыл бұрын
@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 yes linux is very stable
@Hitechcomputergeek4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to point out that while you can create a flash drive with a fake FAT filesystem, as shown in the video, some fake Chinese flash drives have actually had their firmware hacked to report that the drive's capacity is much larger than it actually is. In Linux, these drives would, in fact, show as a 1TB (or whatever capacity) block device, and when you write data past the real capacity of the drive, it either gets silently discarded, or wraps around and trashes the beginning of the drive. In this case, formatting the drive would not fix it, and you have to track down the manufacturer's utility for programming the flash drive's controller in the factory (these have been leaked from many Chinese manufacturers), and re-flash the controller chip to restore the correct capacity. You can also, as a workaround, measure the real capacity of the drive using tools, then create a smaller partition on the drive that only uses the usable space of the block device.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
That's true, those are particularly pesky...
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Even on Linux? Oh no...
@vonatok4 жыл бұрын
When would you use your voice? But i liked the video!
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
He said live stream.
@DavidWonn4 жыл бұрын
I’m more surprised at the comments by many assuming FAT32 had such a low limit (32 GB) while some of us had 40 GB drives or larger decades ago that were set completely as FAT32. Perhaps Windows 2000 was the culprit to blame for this misinformation, as fdisk inside Windows 95B/C/98/SE happily created larger FAT32 partitions.
@fders9384 жыл бұрын
I thought that it was 4gb because 2^32=4.2 billion, or 4gb.
@DavidWonn4 жыл бұрын
@Sinisig 4 GB is the limit of an individual file size on a FAT32 partition. Generally speaking, 4 GB is also the partition limit on FAT16, if formatted through Windows NT and up, and assuming certain defaults like 512-byte sectors.
@fders9384 жыл бұрын
Oh ok, thanks for clarifying
@DaVince214 жыл бұрын
0:11 Dammit, don't you dare pull a Phil Collins on me!
@Lopolin_LP4 жыл бұрын
Yikes, now you can fool your friends xD
@danieliusz72284 жыл бұрын
thats actually how scams work. they sell "1 pb" usb for really cheap and people fall for it!
@malwaretestingfan4 жыл бұрын
*friends* Right.
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Black Hat Totally for your friends.
@powerflame4 жыл бұрын
@@danieliusz7228 but tbs are already super big, nobody would believe PBs... thats 1000000000000000 bytes
@SunroseStudios4 жыл бұрын
2:48 "thiot a bootask. Pleasrt a bootaoppy and..any key togain"
@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr4 жыл бұрын
Once i opened a file in the System Volume Information folder found in all disks (which of course stores the allocation tables, even for NTFS, HPFS and other filesystems) in my dongle in Notepad i was greeted with a seemingly almost-blank file. When opened in Notepad++ I was greeted with a seemingly low amount of NULL (0000) characters. Looks like my dongle's smol
@pepparody3 жыл бұрын
4:55 My drive when our teacher says that "students, create backups from your school projects."
@Aptenodyte4 жыл бұрын
This guy won't make a long video with trash talking.. such a good guy
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Can you elaborate on the meaning of this comment
@Aptenodyte4 жыл бұрын
@@FlyTechVideos its mean i like you
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
@Computist404 жыл бұрын
I really like the detailed information you give here, sure learned something new.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
😃
@djcharliesamson4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks so much for using my music 🙂
@sudoker04 жыл бұрын
This video has given us a valuable lesson, which is: If you are buying a new hard drive or an USB drive, always remember to format the drive, the seller or the manufacturer might use this to scam people. Or even better, check the packaging, the quality, label and only buy from trusted place, etc. If not, you will have a risk of being a victim of those fricking scammer.
@KvertoAnimations4 жыл бұрын
How do you not have more then 50k subs? People can really learn off of you, since you know, you really smart.
@DrannaMTaltMcv57770 Жыл бұрын
The 'System volume information' folder is the one that's taking 60kb i think
@andreyv1164 жыл бұрын
This scam has two layers of operation - filesystem / partition table cooking and USB disk firmware editing. You've shown the first one. The dangerous kind is the second one because it will write without giving errors and a specialist app like h2testw is required to detect it
@Lovuschka4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I ran into issues with too small harddisks. Now I just bought a 64 GB harddisk and expanded it to 4 Exabytes with this trick. Finally I can store most of my data on it. PS: I also made a backup of the internet, just in case. Czrrently I got most of the BBS and Telnet. Getting to the Web soon. PPS: Ok, the internet is larger than I thought. Found a single file that already is too large for the disk. It has Pi written out with all decimals. In the next video, you got to show us how to set the disk size to unlimited. Will now download some RAM to make stuff go faster once you did that.
@smf53 Жыл бұрын
I hope you're joking...
@Lovuschka Жыл бұрын
@@smf53 Yes
@rh2304 жыл бұрын
Software companies should create certain measures to prevent tampering like this. It is causing lots of monetary damages from scammers.
@bitterlemonboy4 жыл бұрын
What? Absolutely not. What happened to freedom of the users? I should be able to manipulate the hardware i have in any way. Because I bought it. I am not renting my computer. I have control of it.
@bitterlemonboy4 жыл бұрын
You are a horrible person with horrible thoughts.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
@∆pertureChromaKey Feel free to tamper with your own hardware, but the OS shouldn't fool you with false info.
@malwaretestingfan4 жыл бұрын
@@bitterlemonboy *manipulate the hardware in any way* And the software should be able to detect the tampering and prevent people from being scammed, which is what the guy above you is saying. Maybe Windows could include a disk verification test, you know, horrible thoughts, people not getting scammed.
@rh2304 жыл бұрын
@@bitterlemonboy Thank you my dude. I hope you have an awesome day!
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
Awesome FlyTech! By the way, I thought you only used Windows. It was cool to see that Pop_OS installation on your laptop. I never knew you used Linux! By the way, what icon pack you use? It looks more different.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
I use no icon pack... it's mostly unmodded. All I did was install zsh, oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k, that's about as far as my customization is going
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
@@FlyTechVideos Ah, good :)
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
@@FlyTechVideos But why did you install zsh instead of using bash?
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Aaron Renny Varghese ZSH has some improvements over BASH. btw i use artix
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 Artix is arch based, good. zsh seems good. Btw I use multiple linux distros.
@AngelCastillo0294 жыл бұрын
Very nice video FlyTech!
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Spidapida0064 жыл бұрын
I have a classmate that has a fake 2TB flash drive. And I challenged him to have at least 20 movies within the flash drive, but he refused.
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a person who is easily scammed and refuses to admit it.
@SpringySpring043 жыл бұрын
I like the synth background music. Makes me feel like I'm playing No Man's Sky or watching videos from 8-Bit Keys
@DerfJagged4 жыл бұрын
FAT32 supports more than 2TB if you increase the sector size. Not sure if you can go beyond, but 64kb sectors lets you use 8TB drives.
@NightBread2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, you just helped me find out I’ve been scammed TWICE by some small company.
@SagePtr4 жыл бұрын
In the worst case the memory in fake usb drive is mirrored, so reading/writing to upper part of the memory actually performs reading/writing to lower part. In this case, writing data over the actual limit will cause a filesystem corruption or some data corruption (if not the entire memory is mirrored, but only a part of it). This is much harder to figure out, to do it, you should generate your test data in some way it doesn't repeat itself (for example, random with secure PRNG), write it to the flash, then read back and compare (and ensure you flushed the buffers between writing and reading back).
@dy72964 жыл бұрын
I'd like you to Format USBs (Flash) into NTFS to get a more optimized file system which supports files and Partitions larger than 4GB, unless you are also using a Mac environment, where Macs don't support writing data on NTFS drives, or what you are formatting on is an old flash usb with capacities below 2gb.
@VarunGupta30094 жыл бұрын
0:38 Well played.
@letssaylalala4 жыл бұрын
I have several thumb drives that show even the fake capacity when formatted -- one way to fix it is to use a tool called "fakeflashtest" I think? It will test the drive by actually writing data to the drive until it's full and re-read the data, then the tool will stop when the data is unreadable and fix it (IIRC.. It's been a long time) I once was gifted an 8GB drive from an event that was actually 128MB. Oof.
@giaptheson Жыл бұрын
4:12 FAT32 only supports maximum partition size of 2048 gigabytes, so storage space separating is required. Whereas exFAT and NTFS supports unlimited amount of storage space, which means that the hard drive that uses these file systems can use as many spaces as you like, maybe 4 terabytes, or even 14 terabytes.
@d9zirable11 ай бұрын
That's FAT16
@unusedaccount91304 жыл бұрын
1:19 I know this, just another limitation of windoze :p edit: I replied below on my new account (TtRTech). it is me!
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile on Linux we have multiple partitions on USB drives and 2TB FAT32.
@unusedaccount91304 жыл бұрын
I am not Obi-Wan. Now leave. Ye, linux is the best !
@unusedaccount91303 жыл бұрын
@@Prowindows62 Mhm, so can you stop spreading false information? Thanks.
@Tearnalte3 жыл бұрын
Replying so my new account gets notifications
@Tearnalte3 жыл бұрын
@@Prowindows62 I've installed multiple times many distros of lunix and ive never had that issue
@Tugezu4 жыл бұрын
New freaking good video again!!!!
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Thanks again!
@unicodefox4 жыл бұрын
flytech really be out here premiering 5 minute videos
@mariocamspam724 жыл бұрын
You are first, good job man!
@cfpwastaken4 жыл бұрын
Can you explain the (: command in cmd? It just writes "More? " and i just dont understand why it does this
@minecrafter90994 жыл бұрын
This is not how it works though, those pendrives that claim 2TB have a firmware mod, which literally presents the pendrive as a 2TB drive. How windows shows the drive on disk manager in this way?
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
Windows reads it from the partition data, and diskmgmt.msc reads it from the firmware. Linux, on the other hand, actually counts blocks and bits, ignoring the firmware altogether.
@minecrafter90994 жыл бұрын
@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 not sure about that, i recall seeing some people trying that but the reported space was the reported by the firmware, i mean... i doubt any system would try to write on every bit and check if it is valid. There are tools like f3 which check the real space of those modified firmware pendrives though
@justsomerandompersononthei25954 жыл бұрын
minecrafter9099 I said read, not write.
@korewatori4 жыл бұрын
Hey fly, love your videos, what distro are you using?
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
Pop OS :) based on Ubuntu
@Mingura6664 жыл бұрын
/dev/sda has always your EFI, and root depending on your desired MBR or GPT configuration, maybe a swap partition or a home partition as well. Watching you echoing on /dev/sda gives me anxiety.
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
Me, having an NVMe SSD, has the EFI partition on /dev/nvme0p1 which explains why the USB drive uses sda. Hence my stern warning to double- and triple-check before you randomly echo onto some device
@Arsen_20054 жыл бұрын
Awesome Video Flytech
@jeyayt15664 жыл бұрын
1:02 Well I guess FAT32 Doesn't mean it's limited to 32GB. But if FAT32 can support up to 2 TeraBytes of storage,what about the NTFS file system used by windows 10?
@mirmarq4294 жыл бұрын
A lot. A lot lot. 256 TB to be exact. The main issue with filesystem obsolescence often isn't the sheer amount of data it can hold, but rather, the size of individual files. For example, a file larger than 4gb cannot exist within a fat32 partition, because of how the 32-bit file allocation table actually works. For fat32, entities larger than this simply do not exist.
@nickchan64984 жыл бұрын
Mitchell Marquez no it is 16 exabytes. The 256 gb NTFS "limit" is an artificial limit like fat32 32gb "limit".
@xheralt4 жыл бұрын
*FAT16 was the fs that had the 2GB limitation.* I know that b/c decades ago, I installed Win95 on a machine with an 8GB HD; had to edit the partitions with fdisk to break it down into ~2GB C:\, D:\, E:\, and F:\. Basically a windows boot/system partition and three personal-data partitions. Kept the existing partitioning scheme even after upgrading to Win98, which had FAT32 and could handle the 8GB natively.
@cycrothelargeplanet3 жыл бұрын
Imagine doing the opposite like making a drive say it is able to store 1.43 GB but in reality, it is 3 GB
@FlyTechVideos3 жыл бұрын
that is easily possible, just make your partition smaller
@cycrothelargeplanet3 жыл бұрын
I just randomly found this comment after.... 9 months
@FoxSlyme4 жыл бұрын
How many VMs can you run recursively? I mean install VM inside of VM inside of VM and so on
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
In theory, unlimited. In practice, you're limited by your system's resources. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYSZhoiPlpugpLc
@ardentdrops4 жыл бұрын
What if you use a bad USB stick for ReadyBoost? Will it corrupt your RAM?
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome question I have to check on. Thanks for the idea!
@noble_lime3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for idea for my channel😂😂
@noble_lime3 жыл бұрын
My idea!
@wtfdoiputhere2 жыл бұрын
So if i understood correctly, this "fake space" is basically the allocation table with much more zeros ?
@pontiacg4452 жыл бұрын
Windows doesn't count the actual size of the drive every time you plug it in, it believes whichever formatting tool would have used the proper size reported from the firmware of the device. If you make your own allocation table and write it directly to the drive, windows assumes that it's not going to be incorrect and reports size based on the allocation table. Since the firmware of this device isn't hacked to lie, as soon as the OS tries to use the faked allocation table to write outside it's bounds it will report an error. This is because windows asks the firmware of the drive to write to a sector that doesn't exist, and since the firmware isn't hacked, it rightfully says it cannot do so. Every fake flash storage device I've ever seen reports the incorrect size to the OS for formatting, and worse they will not report an error when writing outside physical range. They just discard the data. That's because they have a hacked firmware, or they were manufacturing defects with many many bad pages of flash that are unusable.
@lossycompressed3 жыл бұрын
The FitnessGram pacer test copypasta in binary (ASCII/UTF-8) is 5.07 KB
@iambadatsomefunnies55724 жыл бұрын
This trick is also used on fake USB flash drives. VWestlife reviewed a fake 1TB Sony flash drives and h2testw showed that the real capacity is 8GB.
@LuigiCotocea4 жыл бұрын
Next episode, *Creating fake drives with fake name and fake space*
@auzziegamer46614 жыл бұрын
How does Windows tell that the usb is holding more used space than what max "real" space is available that Linux reports?
@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal4 жыл бұрын
For your information, Linux is not just one system, it's distributed in many "flavours". Fly is using Pop OS, when others will use a different one such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch, Debian, etc. I use Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint.
@lucianothewindowsfan4 жыл бұрын
Found an easter egg in the intro where there is a text with an onomatopeia of a fly's buzz.
@FoxSlyme4 жыл бұрын
Of a fly's bzzzzzz
@shinka21094 жыл бұрын
It really pisses me off people selling these fake USB drives. The most space I have ever seen in an USB drive is at least 32 GB. I really feel bad for those idiots who think they're getting the real deal.
@winniethepooh86724 жыл бұрын
me:mom can i buy new hard drive mom:son we arleady have hard drive :hard drive at home
@ojamapijama12522 жыл бұрын
One question. Idk what happened to me. I was trying to play around with my usb i copied exact commands he ran in video and my pc died and now it no longer boots up.just gives unknown filesystem error. am assuming i changed something to system root drive. Luckily i was doing it on secondary pc for this kind of use but any clues why didnt it work? Am not an expert here so am assuming i wasnt supposed to just copy all commands.
@navidmafi4 жыл бұрын
wow , i just searched a year for this , thanks bro!
@Alex-dn7jq4 жыл бұрын
0:18 oh look! Gnome disk manager!
@AE2-scc4 жыл бұрын
There is a 4gb limit on fat but it is a different type of limit. The limit pertains to the size a individual file can have. Meaning you can have 2tb of space with 2, 4gb files. But you can’t have a 2tb drive with 2, 5gb file. Not a lie but a misconception.
@Splarkszter9 ай бұрын
Ha. The music made me entertained enough to watch the video, otherwise i don't like text-based videos because they ussually are badly edited and low quality. You are the exception tho, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
@lorenzo.delbello4 жыл бұрын
I got a Fake 1TB USB for free but probably it has a custom firmware and it still says 1TB when formatting, there is any way to detect and restore it to the original size? Because it also copy "successful" any files until "fill" it, but the files will result corrupted
@Lena-qg8bd4 жыл бұрын
I think we can do the same thing with NTFS using mkntfs
@El_Markovsky3 жыл бұрын
Fat32 isn't only 32gb. Its name is because of 32bit like System32. You will always see 32 bits (maybe until all or most systems will be), because some systems are still 32 bits like Windows 10 32 bit version and won't recognise 64 bit type data.
@garryanthonytan3 жыл бұрын
0:37 i translated the binary code and it's "Congratulations, you wasted your time!!" Lol
@mibbleyt4 жыл бұрын
But why when i format my flash drive it still saying that storage is 1TB?
@FlyTechVideos4 жыл бұрын
The hardware is modded to display a fake size
@PepeUp1dass4 жыл бұрын
I'm remember bought a new USB flash drive and it said 1TB,but it was only 512megabytes or something like that...
@ronaldddoooo4 жыл бұрын
is that why my usb only formats to ntfs when you reduce the size of its current partition? by the way, what linux distro are you using?
@_-noxxon-_3 жыл бұрын
yea. it have little space used while formating. but with paragon formatting it dobt crrate any bit of size
@nghialeminh71954 жыл бұрын
bruh this is underrated =(
@erikandribudiman87133 жыл бұрын
Do you know how to fix flashdisk with Write Protected? I'm looking the way to fix this for years and never solved. Have tried using diskpart, any partition tool softwares but it's all not help at all, and i have no idea how my flashdisk suddenly write protected.
@EpicB4 жыл бұрын
That a supposed two terabyte drive uses FAT32 is suspicious to begin with. Any external drive that big would probably be using exFAT.
@iamwaffling51234 жыл бұрын
3:36 imagine the guy who actually lost data because he didn't heed the warning
@xtrabaka4 жыл бұрын
this is why i dont trust any 'toshiba' usb flashdrives anymore. because their fake amount is more than the original product
@gilberttheregular85534 жыл бұрын
Now I know how to make my USB flash drive work again! Thanks!
@keepphobia4 жыл бұрын
Take a normally large USB to make a windows to go but mod it up to read more space and see how badly windows breaks
@RDCST4 жыл бұрын
So, if I buy a storage device I can know that is fake just by formatting it?
@_DogoTheSpamtong3 жыл бұрын
Windows: it's 1.5 MB Usb: *2 TB take it or die*
@haziqsembilanlima4 жыл бұрын
you should include how to fix it with Gparted as well as other Linux filesystem tools. Ever since I learn the way of gparted I don't even try to find cracked version of partition tool just to get PE images of the said tool. These days I even cloned HDDs/SSDs with gparted, the only thing I need post-cloning is windows installer to repair the bootloader data and that's pretty much of it. Haven't delve deeper but I'd like to have gparted and minimal Windows PE complete with startup recovery to make a full suite of free cloner tool