Drives With FAKE Capacity - Explained

[@pardal_bs]

The binary data at 0:38 decoded from ASCII is: "Congratulations, you wasted your time!!" I feel bad now.

[@junosoft]

haahaahaaha

[@destructivforce2894]

at least you saved time for anyone reading this

[@olfmombach260]

I was just about to write a comment asking people to waste their time finding out what was written in binary there

[@burkhard1256]

I also wasted my Time :(

[@ProDiamondz]

Lmao same

[@anic1716]

This video should be called: How to scam people by faking disk capacity.

[@FlyTechVideos]

the youtube algorithm doesn't really like that title though

[@malwaretestingfan]

Aka, alternative use of a informative video but hell, there are a lot of online tutorials / informations too about this.

[@mariocamspam72]

@@malwaretestingfan yea

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Now you can make a 16 exabyte drive that really only has 16 gigabytes!

[@zai-tm]

@Sortilax - Make your Life Easier he already did that in "how to stereomix"

[@justgapp]

3:34 Honourable mention: "I reverse data loss, Saving you from your angry boss!"

[@cassiusdalcazarosta8010]

Damn you proto!

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

*H A HA HAHAAHAHAHA*

[@SurmenianSoldier]

**ANGERY**

[@haseenabadshah5381]

68 likes epik

[@LucyWings]

*BAD FILES AND MALWARE, COULD ENTER YOUR COMPUTER!*

[@SKCro.]

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.

[@slavboii420]

These are the types of drives saying 1GB in size but it cannot store more than 500MB of data... Anyways informative video!

[@slavboii420]

I just told a reference there...

[@slavboii420]

@Lucas Zhu yep, exactly

[@kreozello]

My phone: have 4gb System: *I'mma take 2 of them, have fun!* Me: ...

[@purrplaysLE]

@@kreozello Some phones have “16 gigabytes” but end up having like 8 gigabytes because system always takes up half of it. I can relate

[@cscscscss]

@Lucas Zhu Imagine a floppy disk turning out to be actually a 1 TB USB flash

[@burkhard1256]

1:00 Binary Translation: Congratulations, you wasted your time!!

[@elfakyn]

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.

[@IrisGalaxis]

So how could it be fixed?

[@itsCh4rl1e]

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

[@gabrielandy9272]

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.

[@traister101]

@@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

[@IrisGalaxis]

@@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.

[@LumaControl]

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!

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thank you so much

[@DaVince21]

Fully agree with this. It's all very interesting.

[@septercat]

@@DaVince21 Imagine replying 1 year later

[@DaVince21]

@@septercat I don't have to, I did just that yesterday. Was reminded of this video again recently and wanted to show my appreciation. ☺️

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thank you!

[@realcartoongirl]

you know its fake when you bought a 2tb drive and it actually gave you 2tb instead of 1.8tb

[@broodjenoodles]

True

[@cycrothelargeplanet]

Tebibyte (windows uses that but calls it a terabyte) vs terabyte

[@ITAC85]

0:41 "Congratulations, you wasted your time!"

[@degamersspelen6468]

trueee

[@atelie.benedictus]

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.

[@minecrafter9099]

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.benedictus]

@@minecrafter9099 Ikr, but I'm giving it some use for the time. Not gonna risk to put anything important on it though

[@KXQ]

it's not impossible. it's been done. it's $500 for a 1tb USB drive

[@atelie.benedictus]

@@KXQ Yeah, I mean, it's impossible for a 5 to 20 dollar FLASH DRIVE. Forgot to mention that

[@CreeperDaGuy]

@@alandarrin unless your in chinaa

[@petermarshall1634]

4 people who bought chinese 1tb drives on ebay disliked this video.

[@64R1M]

What about flytech haters?

[@CZghost]

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.

[@spitfire7772]

If Linus would seen this video, he wouldn't bought that 1 tb MicroSD...

[@kayleighmoore6951]

*mega mega double double triple triple OOF*

[@FluffyFoxUwU]

this is true

[@gamermapper]

It has hacked firmware while this video is about hacking the software

[@isaacbenmhidi2845]

@@gamermapper what is the difference between firmware and software? Firmware are like operating system?

[@isaacbenmhidi2845]

I have an sd card that i can't format or change anything inside... so its problem is that firmware right ?

[@boooowomp]

Nobody noticed at the intro you can see the text “bzzzzzz” flying with the fly

[@madbanana22]

In some videos here is sound of flying fly)

[@hanniaedithmartinezadame794]

Thanks, now I will know if im going to be scammed xd

[@jondycz]

Thanks now I know how to scam

[@powerflame]

@@jondycz yes officer this comment right here

[@malwaretestingfan]

@@jondycz This is the right mindset. Gotta get that money.

[@seemscool58]

Ok HEMA xd

[@anonymouscyborg5610]

@@jondycz Sigma mindset

[@soullessleftover8427]

People who say: _"FAT32 can only have 32GB!"_ Me: *Hold my FAT32 Format*

[@thunderskrup4161]

_ italic _ * Bold * - strike -

[@mariocamspam72]

@@thunderskrup4161 -how is this man-

[@mariannmariann2052]

@Limer Mixel __italic__ **bold** --strike--

[@AchmadBadra]

2^32

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

@@thunderskrup4161 *Bold* _italic_ -strike- wow it rally worked

[@JordanViknar]

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.

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

haha Linux USB multiple partitions and 128GB FAT32 go format format

[@JordanViknar]

@@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.

[@YitocukKilic]

What? I thought fat32 supported 2TB.

[@rachelwachel]

@@YitocukKilic it does, but big windows propaganda doesn't let you go format FAT32 above 32 gigs

[@superprobablylevel]

fat (humor)

[@raz0229]

You are telling me that my 999 terabytes USB flash drive is fake?

[@CreeperDaGuy]

I have a 9999999 friskbyte usb no undertale frisk tho :(

[@CreeperDaGuy]

Well idk

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

ya it fake Also 1 PB or 1000TB disks are well underway so yeah

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Why is my 16 exabyte drive overwriting data?

[@spookyscaryskeletonsmith2840]

OHOHO, IS FUNNY BECAUSE HE DOESNT OWN USB, ohoho

[@djcharliesamson]

Great video. Thanks so much for using my music 🙂

[@CubeBag]

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-ri1ft1gf2z]

That's true but spoofing the controller is much harder

[@sikorsp22]

4:46 Linux cursor changes to Windows cursor

[@petermarshall1634]

I think it's a VM

[@malwaretestingfan]

It's a VM.

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

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-kx5es4kr4x]

For anyone who doesnt know, its Pop!_OS

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Aaron Renny Varghese Well, it's part of one distro, so it is sort of valid as a "Linux cursor". btw i use artix

[@shaunclarke94]

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.

[@FlyTechVideos]

Yes. Hardware mods

[@shaunclarke94]

@@FlyTechVideos well likely firmware/register chabges in the flash controller.

[@DamienPup]

@@shaunclarke94 yes, by modifying the firmware of the controller you make make it display any capacity you want.

[@unknownaccount4783]

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

[@1e1001]

I'm assuming it's going to be an NTFS drive

[@ravarcheon]

how does one pull this off with ntfs

[@SheIITear]

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.

[@boxritter]

Can I change the "size" on windows 10?

[@SheIITear]

@@boxritter If you can find the correct flash tool for your usb.

[@Hitechcomputergeek]

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.

[@FlyTechVideos]

That's true, those are particularly pesky...

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Even on Linux? Oh no...

[@feefre]

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!

[@Austeja608]

@@EMREOYUN you need to use disk part, or partition manager

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Meanwhile Linux allows multiple partitions on USB drives and 2TB FAT32.

[@_____._]

@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 Arch gang

[@pepparody]

4:55 My drive when our teacher says that "students, create backups from your school projects."

[@SimpIeC]

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

[@Spidapida006]

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.

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Wow, what a person who is easily scammed and refuses to admit it.

[@Aptenodyte]

This guy won't make a long video with trash talking.. such a good guy

[@FlyTechVideos]

Can you elaborate on the meaning of this comment

[@Aptenodyte]

@@FlyTechVideos its mean i like you

[@FlyTechVideos]

[@DavidWonn]

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.

[@fders938]

I thought that it was 4gb because 2^32=4.2 billion, or 4gb.

[@DavidWonn]

@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.

[@fders938]

Oh ok, thanks for clarifying

[@DaVince21]

0:11 Dammit, don't you dare pull a Phil Collins on me!

[@SunroseStudios]

2:48 "thiot a bootask. Pleasrt a bootaoppy and..any key togain"

[@rh230]

Software companies should create certain measures to prevent tampering like this. It is causing lots of monetary damages from scammers.

[@bitterlemonboy]

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.

[@bitterlemonboy]

You are a horrible person with horrible thoughts.

[@FlyTechVideos]

@∆pertureChromaKey Feel free to tamper with your own hardware, but the OS shouldn't fool you with false info.

[@malwaretestingfan]

@@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.

[@rh230]

@@bitterlemonboy Thank you my dude. I hope you have an awesome day!

[@ssduser7687]

me: THERES FLY IN HERE fly: *flys over the laptop laptop: * gets a blue screen me: AHHHHHHHHHH GET OVER HERE YOU FREAKING FLYYY

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Haha Linux is not prone to bugs as easily, I have had less Kernel Panics than BSODS on Linux.

[@nsg650]

@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 yes linux is very stable

[@unusedaccount9130]

1:19 I know this, just another limitation of windoze :p edit: I replied below on my new account (TtRTech). it is me!

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Meanwhile on Linux we have multiple partitions on USB drives and 2TB FAT32.

[@unusedaccount9130]

I am not Obi-Wan. Now leave. Ye, linux is the best !

[@unusedaccount9130]

@@Prowindows62 Mhm, so can you stop spreading false information? Thanks.

[@Tearnalte]

Replying so my new account gets notifications

[@Tearnalte]

@@Prowindows62 I've installed multiple times many distros of lunix and ive never had that issue

[@sudoker0]

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.

[@NightBread]

Thank you, you just helped me find out I’ve been scammed TWICE by some small company.

[@DrannaMTaltMcv57770]

The 'System volume information' folder is the one that's taking 60kb i think

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

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

[@VarunGupta3009]

0:38 Well played.

[@KvertoAnimations]

How do you not have more then 50k subs? People can really learn off of you, since you know, you really smart.

[@Lopolin_LP]

Yikes, now you can fool your friends xD

[@danieliusz7228]

thats actually how scams work. they sell "1 pb" usb for really cheap and people fall for it!

[@malwaretestingfan]

*friends* Right.

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Black Hat Totally for your friends.

[@powerflame]

@@danieliusz7228 but tbs are already super big, nobody would believe PBs... thats 1000000000000000 bytes

[@andreyv116]

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

[@Computist40]

I really like the detailed information you give here, sure learned something new.

[@FlyTechVideos]

😃

[@giaptheson]

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.

[@d9zirable]

That's FAT16

[@SagePtr]

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).

[@vonatok]

When would you use your voice? But i liked the video!

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

He said live stream.

[@Lovuschka]

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]

I hope you're joking...

[@Lovuschka]

@@smf53 Yes

[@FoxSlyme]

How many VMs can you run recursively? I mean install VM inside of VM inside of VM and so on

[@FlyTechVideos]

In theory, unlimited. In practice, you're limited by your system's resources. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYSZhoiPlpugpLc

[@Alex-dn7jq]

0:18 oh look! Gnome disk manager!

[@letssaylalala]

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.

[@ardentdrops]

What if you use a bad USB stick for ReadyBoost? Will it corrupt your RAM?

[@FlyTechVideos]

This is an awesome question I have to check on. Thanks for the idea!

[@noble_lime]

Thanks for idea for my channel😂😂

[@noble_lime]

My idea!

[@bitterlemonboy]

How can gedit be a hex editor? 2:41

[@FlyTechVideos]

That was just the output of a diff between 2 xxd outputs

[@TheOPtmal]

Thats the text file itsself, not GEdit decoding the file as hex

[@jeyayt1566]

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?

[@mirmarq429]

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.

[@nickchan6498]

Mitchell Marquez no it is 16 exabytes. The 256 gb NTFS "limit" is an artificial limit like fat32 32gb "limit".

[@unicodefox]

flytech really be out here premiering 5 minute videos

[@mariocamspam72]

You are first, good job man!

[@DerfJagged]

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.

[@navidmafi]

wow , i just searched a year for this , thanks bro!

[@cfpwastaken]

Can you explain the (: command in cmd? It just writes "More? " and i just dont understand why it does this

[@adriandip4791]

I have a usb that when plugged in also shows a cd/dvd drive partition i want to re create that on another usb

[@garryanthonytan]

0:37 i translated the binary code and it's "Congratulations, you wasted your time!!" Lol

[@cycrothelargeplanet]

Imagine doing the opposite like making a drive say it is able to store 1.43 GB but in reality, it is 3 GB

[@FlyTechVideos]

that is easily possible, just make your partition smaller

[@cycrothelargeplanet]

I just randomly found this comment after.... 9 months

[@SpringySpring04]

I like the synth background music. Makes me feel like I'm playing No Man's Sky or watching videos from 8-Bit Keys

[@lucianothewindowsfan]

Found an easter egg in the intro where there is a text with an onomatopeia of a fly's buzz.

[@FoxSlyme]

Of a fly's bzzzzzz

[@potatoalien2702]

At 3:46, that command just be "sudo head -c xxxxx" instead of "echo head -c xxxxx l sudo sh"?

[@FlyTechVideos]

That doesn't work for some reason, I tried it and I ran into weird errors

[@iamwaffling5123]

3:36 imagine the guy who actually lost data because he didn't heed the warning

[@dy7296]

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.

[@xheralt]

*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.

[@Splarkszter]

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!

[@AngelCastillo029]

Very nice video FlyTech!

[@FlyTechVideos]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@minecrafter9099]

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?

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

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.

[@minecrafter9099]

@@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

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

minecrafter9099 I said read, not write.

[@nadiafriesen971]

What does it look like in a partition assistant?

[@FlyTechVideos]

Depends on the partition assistant. My experience with Linux was that Nautilus wasn't fooled, and neither was the disk manager, yet the disk manager did show the fake size while also saying that only 1 GB is free. It was weird.

[@nadiafriesen971]

FlyTech Videos Is this the same thing ebay scammers use?

[@FlyTechVideos]

No, the scammers usually use hardware mods

[@lossycompressed]

The FitnessGram pacer test copypasta in binary (ASCII/UTF-8) is 5.07 KB

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

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.

[@FlyTechVideos]

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

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

@@FlyTechVideos Ah, good :)

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

@@FlyTechVideos But why did you install zsh instead of using bash?

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

Aaron Renny Varghese ZSH has some improvements over BASH. btw i use artix

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 Artix is arch based, good. zsh seems good. Btw I use multiple linux distros.

[@honzapat]

Do you know how to fix it when it shows the fake capacity even in formatting mode?

[@FlyTechVideos]

in that case, the procedure is a bit more complicated. you need to find the correct size first...sadly idk how to do that. there are tutorials for that online

[@petermarshall1634]

Use f3 on Linux

[@Austeja608]

Write bunch junk data ir verify

[@RealUniCat]

Did anyone notice the "bzzzzzz" in 0:00? (AKA the start) it's on the fly.

[@Lena-qg8bd]

I think we can do the same thing with NTFS using mkntfs

[@auzziegamer4661]

How does Windows tell that the usb is holding more used space than what max "real" space is available that Linux reports?

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

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.

[@mibbleyt]

But why when i format my flash drive it still saying that storage is 1TB?

[@FlyTechVideos]

The hardware is modded to display a fake size

[@LuigiCotocea]

Next episode, *Creating fake drives with fake name and fake space*

[@Arsen_2005]

Awesome Video Flytech

[@steveewastaken]

Me who doesn't know coding/programming but still likes the video:

[@wernerderchamp]

regarding 1:09, FAT32 supports single files up to 4 GB.

[@wtfdoiputhere]

So if i understood correctly, this "fake space" is basically the allocation table with much more zeros ?

[@pontiacg445]

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.

[@abzolutelynothn]

*i'm starting to wonder if terabytes even exist*

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

*They do, that's why 6TB HDDs exist.*

[@chrisrodriguezm13]

0:49 The numbers below the “Storage” text: *b i n a r y c o d e*

[@iambadatsomefunnies5572]

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.

[@korewatori]

Hey fly, love your videos, what distro are you using?

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

Pop OS :) based on Ubuntu

[@nagi.desuuu]

Thanks, Fly! Now I'm going to scam the scammers who try to sell me these.

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

haha 16 exabyte flash drive go scam scam

[@gilberttheregular8553]

Now I know how to make my USB flash drive work again! Thanks!

[@keepphobia]

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

[@_-noxxon-_]

yea. it have little space used while formating. but with paragon formatting it dobt crrate any bit of size

[@xtrabaka]

this is why i dont trust any 'toshiba' usb flashdrives anymore. because their fake amount is more than the original product

[@devicemodder]

can this be used in reverse to fix those fake flashdrives from ebay so that they report their true value instead of the fake one?

[@FlyTechVideos]

Yes, but you can also just use a regular partition manager

[@ojamapijama1252]

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.

[@lorenzo.delbello]

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

[@erikandribudiman8713]

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.

[@visugames5697]

do ssd and hhd can also have fake storage??

[@pontiacg445]

Yes, any storage device has it's own firmware that does the actual reading and writing as the OS commands and those are all easily spoofed to do nefarious things. If you won't buy from legit sources, you ought to use a tool like H2testw to check if data is actually saved like it should be.

[@orangethefox9545]

My friend had a usb like this he hade somthing hade a TB Of space he put it in there but didn’t work he called me over I told him it was fake then I showed him this vid and now he understands