Sunday, October 24, 2010

Dodgy USB pen camera

I bought a pen camera in Shenzhen while on exchange last semester. It took me this long to realise that it's dodgy - 2GB instead of 4GB. I tried recording a friend's thesis presentation but failed.

It appears as "company pmp platform opn usb" in device manager.


Warning: Only 3646 of 3647 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
1.7 GByte OK (3730824 sectors)
1.7 GByte DATA LOST (3736184 sectors)
Details:1.5 GByte overwritten (3327203 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
199.6 MByte corrupted (408981 sectors)
123.5 KByte aliased memory (247 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000000000000
Expected: 0x0000000000000000
Found: 0x05d5522043425355
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 1.40 MByte/s
Reading speed: 5.47 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4


These were helpful:
Setting the time - the microcontroller eats up the text file. 
http://shaddack.twibright.com/projects/reveng_spypen/ 
Create a file named "SystemTime.txt", with a single line in format
e.g. 2009-10-05 04:30:00
Then save it to the root directory of the spy pen. 

Reformat to proper capacity using low level format:
http://fake-memory.com/forum/index.php?topic=567.0 

3 comments:

  1. i got one of those. bought a 64GB usb stick and it was only 4GB with viruses and random crashes.

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  2. yeah um......generally you're not supposed to buy those from there.......

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