Memorystick tool

Password recovery. You use the SD formatter to recover the total size of the SD card. Download the SD card formatter tool application. Select the drive letter for the SD card. Select format. Click yes to confirm the format process. This trademark is used for fairly purpose. Memory Stick Formatter 2. Download Link. Extract the zipped folder then install the software by running MSfmtInst You need to use the Administrator privileges to setup the software. After you finish the installation you need to insert the Sony Memory Stick through Sony adapter.

Confirm that the write-protection switch of the Memory Stick is set to the "Write enable" position. Warning : Formatting will erase all files in the Memory Stick. Portable and installable versions are available. This is also quite a good tool to experiment with bootloaders on your flash drive as there are several different types that can be used.

To do that, you can download FakeFlashTest which is by the same developer and includes the quick test and another more comprehensive test. H2testw is able to test USB flash drives, memory cards and also internal, external and even network hard drives for errors. It simply works by filling the device with 1GB chunks of test data and then verifies it by reading the data back again. Usage is very simple. Select the English language because it defaults to German, select the target device, and then choose whether you want to test all available space or a specified amount of Megabytes.

This program has been found to be very good at testing both for errors and to find USB sticks with a fake capacity. H2testw is also a completely portable standalone executable. Download H2testw. In addition to being handy useful for detecting fake capacity drives, it can also show you how fast the drive can read and write data. The device map at the bottom will show a graphic representation of passes, write fails or read fails.

Choose the Write log file option to output a possible list of errors to a text file. This tool is very old dating back to but it still works and is only 66KB in size. USB Memory Stick Tester is a pretty simple tool to operate and will write and then read data to test for errors on the drive. There are only really two options to speak of. The first thing you can change is the number of passes slider. The other option is the test size which will be a percentage of the total size of the flash drive.

Obviously, the higher the proportion of the drive is tested, the more likely it is that any issues or errors will be identified. I suppose that having hours of remaining process for the ChkFlsh to complete the test is good news about the 2TB flash drive pen I got as a gift… Anyways, I still doubt this strange little thing is really having that damn much capacity lol.

What is the cause of it not reading the last block? Is it related to the drive, or the software? Context is important. How could he have come to not trust it without having installed and tried it? Where are you coming from? Same here with this program. It fails on almost any drive, that I tested. Delete this program. Worked fine during testing and completed without issue on two or three drives. Some of these programs are quite old, and I doubt whether they are able to cope with the larger flash drives available today.

For instance, the last Flash Drive Tester version, 1. I always depended upon it until I bought some GB sticks from MyMemory, a reputable supplier, and it reported errors. The company insisted that the sticks were sound, so I tried other programs, like h2Testw, which passed them and they have given no trouble since. I have some media on order from Groupon that I was subsequently told [after purchase], might be fake.