Software Sunday EP14: Make Fake Flash Media Usable With BOOTICE

In this installment of Software Sunday we are going to look at a way to set a fake micro SD cards back to their actual capacity. This method can be applied to nearly any other flash storage medium including flash drives and full size SD cards. We will be doing this via partitioning, this method does not modify the medium's firmware. Via BOOTICE we can set a partition to the drives actual capacity and mark the rest of the "fake capacity" as hidden.
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[@buzzboy1000]

Thank you, Sir. This was very useful. Turns out that my '256GB' card was 15.3. I set it to 14 just to be on the safe side.

[@darth1000blue]

Excellent tutorial! I took my Amazon 256 gig to the actual 59 gig.

[@macksmoothly]

Great videos! Keep up the good work!

[@SteveAB4EL]

Thank you so much for this episode! Love the approach. :^)

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Thanks!

[@areebshoaib7887]

Loved it! helped me save my sandisk cruzr blade! Thanks

[@benu5365]

Omg we have the same colours in our logo!

[@digitalmatrixio]

The fact there is a high chance of even a single bit being lost while using this method means this should be a no-go for anyone! Period.

[@ej_tech]

I will still use my "fake storage drive" to carry install files around (like .exe and stuff). If it gets corrupted, then whatever.

[@frobertopereira]

Pretty usefull. One complement to this tutorial. Although I execute the Process PBR as explained here, the message which I can´t write on it remains. I had to Execute the re-partition chosing USB-HDD mode(Single Partition) first.

[@NivexGameplays]

Tried the last thing to solve the: acess denied and still didnt work :C heelp !

[@matrixate]

Thanks for posting this fix.

[@DoshiPhD]

Thank you very much. Subscribed!

[@a224kkk]

Bootice is so useful in many ways I agree

[@CloroxBleachOfficial]

THANK YOU!!!! I bought a "128GB microSD card" It was actually a 32 gb but yeah thanks i was trying to look for a video or article like this and i finally found one.

[@papi-but-cracks9040]

You were actually lucky if it turned out to be 32. Most of these fakes are just 4-15 GB's

[@GustavoPerez-nt6gs]

same happened to me, mine said 128GB and its only 32gb

[@usernamereg]

Thanks bought 256 GB samsung Select, Ran H2test came out to be only 15.9 GB. Though got refund from seller without return so used this to settle it with 16gb(actual 14.6Gb) Flash Card. I guess thats my compensation.:)

[@FroztiProductions]

Help! h2test said 7.7gb okay. Is that the old measurement or the new measurement? Is it rounded or exact?

[@kapchonka5128]

Noice video mate. Only thing it is little bit late.

[@hen377]

Really helpful!

[@crystalscan2002]

good vidoe braxton thanks...

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Thanks for watching!

[@UGS4697]

Best place to buy the SanDisk extreme pro? The real one at a cheap price?

[@filip__]

I have a 64gb flash drive and i copied some files on it and i came other day and it just wouldnt mount it only shows in device manager and diskpart says its no media 0b

[@mpaj1900]

I was able to use 30GB of a fake micro SD. Thanks a ton.

[@eir5749]

I hope I am too , I ordered fake SD card with 375 php, but I can only use 14 gig

[@damonabets3779]

I like your videos a lot

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Thanks for watching :)

[@damonabets3779]

Hey I have a question for you all of your websites are running HP COMPAQ DC7800P yes or no

[@erolismailovski1344]

Nice toronto wallpaper ahaha I'm from toronto so I noticed it right away

[@thehappyascii]

If you're on linux you can use GPARTED to rewrite it's partition table to fix it. Note to use ms-dos Partition tables instead of GPT or else you wont be able to use it in windows 8 and below.

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Gparted should also work in theory :) . I have never tested that method though.

[@SirStarGazer00]

Could you explain a little more please? I have a 320 gb hdd that's now showing 2tb.

[@getrekt3983]

thanks for this! i noticed most netac cards are as advertised. what good brands did you find? the netac have packaging that u can tell is legit

[@kenjlee]

Thanks but the hidden partition is not working 100%. When plugged in to another Windows 10 recognized all hidden partitions and prompted multiple windows asking to format them all. Even if I don't they still occupy 3 other drive letters making it difficult to locate which one is the actual SD card. Also card is having trouble getting detected by Windows 10 Tablets, Amazon Fire HD, and maybe other devices I didn't test.

[@totalrobot4408]

So there is always a few MB bad? What if the files written on these few MB? Then is it screwed? How can we have no MB errors?

[@keitaro105]

Thank you

[@-fazik-3713]

Still works! But you need to remove drive letters too in order to fully hide them.

[@leonwangls]

i did bootice , got the volume reduce, put sd card into action, require format. then the same fake volume comes back again after format.

[@MCKoolperson9]

Or you could just download some more storage

[@DevanTW]

BTW I used AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, that's my clean way to change their partition capacities.

[@jadchi]

Thaaaanks!!

[@sarahmano6286]

sir the other particition did not hide its showing as different drive but i follow your instruction

[@vipinjobt5190]

I have a samsung 64gb memory card It's not working sine I brought online .is there anything else is can do

[@aggourinzavon5440]

Great!!!

[@ticket573]

I recently bought a 16gb SD card, the only problem is the stamp was fading but it's actually 16gb and I can't use it as internal storage because when I do I can't download apps

[@youngminlee4036]

Could you review some usb flash drives please?

[@AAComputersandTechnology]

Maybe. Did you have some in mind?

[@thehappyascii]

Its the same process.

[@bandkid3282]

Hey I know this is older but my USB makes 4 separate partitions and says theybare hidden but theybare not hidden

[@mandi7]

H2testw shows that my "128 GB" flash stick has "0 KByte OK (0 sectors)" Does that mean it's so faked that there's actually no single MB for data?

[@mandi7]

OOps, the program checked that on that disk there's about 470 MB worth of memory That's surely a lot. At lest I could format it as you've shown and use it somehow. Thank you!

[@renebea9]

Write file failed! The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

[@notcheeto7506]

The Bootice download comes with 2 identical exe files. One of them is a Virus, name IDP.HEUR.26, is malicious software that aims at exposing your system to further malware injection. In my case, the bottom one was the virus. Don't click on it, scan the two of them. Before and after extracting.

[@HaeDreyK]

Can I do this on mac?

[@U.S.A.]

If it says: WRITE FILE FAILED ACCESS DENIED ,then open CMD and write in the following command lines: diskpart list disk then figure out which is the fake data storage's number what you want to downsize from the listed disks and then type in the following command line: select disk 1 (the number is the fake data storage's number so maybe it will be different in your case) list disk ( if you want to make sure if it's selected, the selected disk will be marked with *, this step is not necessary) clean Make sure that you've selected the right disk, and that there is no data on the storage device because this command will delete everything from the disk, it will even delete the partition from it (this is why this method works while formatting the drive is not)(you don't have to write anything after the word "clean", just simply type in clean and hit enter) After that follow the steps shown in this video.

[@reginald56000]

the BOOTICE link is broken T_T

[@SHA3BOL1]

The other fake drives are still appear even after I hide them that's annoying

[@jonathandemetrio4924]

Can I be that one lucky subscriber? BTW i now know how to use that program now thank man.

[@shebaham]

My SD card isn't showing at all anywhere

[@TheSailorKing]

it's BOOT ICE and the best program is f3 running on linux

[@zdd6175]

I dont know what I did wrong here, but I am no longer able to read any sd card after using bootice

[@rafiquezulfadhil6248]

Tried, mine got 0kbyte is ok???

[@CZARNYEU]

Interesting Tutorial Brother. Regards from Europe from my Channel Bro's

[@TheJman5520]

nice toronto wall paper

[@crikhard]

Braxton?

[@ichigozaraki955]

IT SAYS WRITE FILE FAILED ACCESS DENIED.ANY HELP?

[@U.S.A.]

I've found the solution, and I wrote it in a comment (on windows load every comment, ctrl+f and search for my name).

[@trecklerzzz]

The pc cannot detect the sd card. Hahaha help I bought a fake one and my phone can still detect it.

[@mshihirimohd6511]

Mine refused

[@ACMCMaata]

tnx for the info. now my drive is 91 mb only from 128gb fake flash drive. How disgusting!

[@knightchampiontechreviews2929]

Mine is 113mb from 128gb

[@a224kkk]

I would ask for return or give negative review

[@g4merz768]

i did this and my computer doesn't recognize the card anymore, thank you

[@MrCougar214]

There is no fixing the fake one's i bought. The only actual usable space on them is 100MB. That's pretty damn pathetic!

[@graphosxp]

Your windows 7 is ugly. Please use Classic Shell and make that start menu shine ;)

[@stevenhollingsworth3249]

graphosxp If he can't customize it why would the Microsoft mothership build that option into the operating system.

[@hidde1626]

I use SDFormatter for that, much simpler.

[@alynicholls3230]

ikr, and its a samsung approved program.

[@ramiabouzahra]

Maybe it's pronounced boot ice?

[@SirStarGazer00]

It's pronounced "Boot Eyes" as in "Ice Cube"

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

You should upgrade to Windows 10, as well as OBS

[@bellemy5390]

I prefer 7 instead of 10.

[@ScrapTechTips]

Intro to long

[@martinocko9]

but if its fake you get ebay refound so its basicly free

[@blastshieldaddiction]

Gparted. Spinrite. If you can't repair it at least make the available space useable with that software the device is garbage.

[@bobsagget823]

video starts at 1:20 tl;dr this is just repartitioning the drive which is moronic the real answer is you need to identify the micro sd card controller and reprogram the firmware which this video doesn't even get close to doin

[@youngminlee4036]

First

[@75_oranges]

youngmin Lee omg that's sooooo cool man 👌👌👌👌👌