Comments on: Fixing USB/Flash/Pen Key with MPTools - MXT6208A Chip

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:45:01 +0000

Hi,
Whats the controller though ?

By: Enrico

Enrico — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:53:52 +0000

Hi guys! I’ve been away from here for a while and now I noticed that many people had problems with fake pen drives. However I’m very happy that some people could fix their own thanks to Sumeet and me. I wouls suggest Sumeet to create a sticky post with a list of hacked pen drives’ chips and the suitable software to fix them. Good job with this blog Sumeet!

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:26:15 +0000

Good to hear that Growe, hopefully you got your money back :). And all your keys are fixed thanks to HTH :).

PS: get any CRC error this time from the zip ?

By: growe

growe — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:35:50 +0000

Follow-up to my last post… It was slow going at first but then went quicker. It finished and all is well now.

Thanks

By: growe

growe — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:31:10 +0000

Ok, here’s the scoop… I have several keys, all identical. I opened one of the keys (accidentally breaking it) anyway, the chips are in fact….
K9GAG08U0M (2GB)
MW6208E

I tried all the previously mentioned versions of udTools with no success; however, the lastest version posted at http://www.bloggybloggy.com/randomdownloads/UdTools1.0.4.6_20081010.zip did the trick…. I think… It is still running. It’s farther than I’ve gotten before.

Thanks to both HTH and Sumeet

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:29:30 +0000

@growe you might be in luck and solution posted by HTH might be what you been looking for, i have downloaded the original file and uploaded to bloggy bloggy here itself. PS: if you get crc issues, thats with PDF files only that get renamed and their header staying what they were originally or something like that of an issue.

UdTools1.0.4.6_20081010 Download for MW6208E or MXT8208 Controller

Thanks HTH, and growe it might very well be the case that your controller is actually MXT8208 instead of MW6208E or vice versa. And to answer your other question “nope i have no first hand experience with Udtools as ebay and usb keys for me is a big no, but there are others who come here to post their solutions, so the latest faked usb keys can be fixed too .

Cheers

By: HTH

HTH — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:58:20 +0000

oops, let me clean up that link:

Cleaned it more

UdTools1.0.4.6_20081010.zip

(above link edit made by Sumeet)

By: HTH

HTH — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:55:31 +0000

My case has already been reported to SOSfakeflash; they are working on their material for fixing fake/defective flashdrives…:

I bought a Kingston DataTraveler 2GB on eBay. It arrived looking very good, in solid packaging and with a case of convincing quality. But it lost/corrupted data when larger amounts were put on it, and tested defective with H2testw.exe Kingston ignored my warranty claim. I believe this was a counterfeit drive. Chipgenius.exe reported “PnP Device ID: VID = 1221 PID = 3234″, “Chip Vendor: micov” and (controller) “Chip Part-Number: MXT8208″.
However, I popped open the case, after having had no luck at all with the HP program or a couple different versions of MPTools. The actual controller chip inside had printed on it MW6208E. So chipgenius was apparently reading fake data, programmed by a counterfeiter…? The ink-based version of the controller ID led me to use UdTools1.0.4.6_20081010, and that worked, to reflash a low-level format that left me with a 1.5GB flashdrive, that tests good with h2testw.exe
Lucky me, I had my purchase price refunded so all I lost was time, hacking it back to a reliable 1.5 GB …UdTools was downloaded from H-teeteepee.dubyadubyadubya.flashboot.ru/uploads/files/public/UdTools1_0_4_6_20081010.rar

If you try it, ignore the flashing of your drive on program startup, it won’t start the format and show you any actual progress until you click on the left-side button with your flashdrive’s drive letter on it. Keep default settings, at least to start! It worked for me, good luck to any other penny pinchers out there, or people who thought Kingston was a reliable brand, even when shipped from Hong Kong. -HTH

By: growe

growe — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:51:51 +0000

Sumeet,

Thanks for clarifying the issue with the .zip

Are you familiar with the use of udtools? Are there any settings that I need to set?
I’m just not sure how to get around the “Download Scan Code Failed” error”

Any help or even suggestions are appreciated…. by anyone.

The details of my usb keys are listed earlier in this thread but for quick reference can be accessed here… http://www.myblog.bloggybloggy.com/usb-key-fix-mptools-11-05-2008/#comment-8096

Thanks,

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:49:38 +0000

Hi,
There is no correction of data file , that crc comes because the pdf files have non-english characters, i have zipped those 2 pds in separate zip file within the zip itself, so you will not get any crc messages this time, but do reload the page as file might be cached on your browser.

Any other crc’s on any other files will also be due to pdf files, and not due to any other files.