I put files onto my usb pen drive - Ameco flash drive - and now they are corrupted.
They're all weird and make no sense and I now cannot delete them. Help!

Viv Dawes, January 2008

I have Kingston 32 GB pen drive when I have save any data in it, the data get corrupted and show in a starange manner, is this pen drive is fake, please help me out regarding this

Qureshi Asgar Ali, April 2009

I bought a pen drive kingston 8 gb ( yellow) when I putted the files inside it they were fine until I get my pen drive of the computer and putted back or put it inside another computer and it just didn't show the contents only the folders, So I went back to the store and got another one, this one is a ameco flash disk and when I put it in it says: disk must be formated and even worse: It doesnt format. so... I'll just get my money back. =/

Tarek Farah, April 2009

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Shikhar, January 2009

Same problem I had observed with my Kingstom 32 GB Pen drive, after copping more than 500 mb files get courrupted and Data of under folder under folder invisible, I checked these property it shows coorect folder size but there is no data inside, also we can not manual delete these folder, just we must to fromat this.

Parimal Sondkar, December 2008

what i done for this is on my xp laptop my files were corrupt (on my memory pen) and i went on properties or summat and it said fat12 file change it to fat and it will take everything of the memory pen or its on disk defragmentor and i clicked on it (i fink i right clicked it or went on the top and clicked on file or summat and then it came up change file type so i changed it and it removed every thing

matty_tottenham@hotmail.com, November 2008

i have also bought 8gb kingston data travler but when i inserted in to the system it shown as ameco osb flash drive when i copied files after 2gb all files get croupted i format it and tried again but same resulte.i think it is fage usb drive.my sajjection is to throw it and buy origional with bill.

amit_dca@rediffmail.com, November 2008

definitely fakes. A friend brought back a Sony branded flash drive from Beijing China that was imprinted 160GB - That's right, not a typo 160 gb. Plugging it in says there are 156 gb of free space. Copying more than 1GB causes the files to corrupt.

Cheap crap!

ghard1, October 2008

Take care with those Ameco Flash Drive, In China are selling fake Kingston Pen Drive when you connect it to the computer it show Ameco Flash Disk and not Data Traveler that is the correct. Resume... you have fake Pen Drive, i do have the same ones but Kingston Fake Pen Drive.

JoeCool62, August 2008

SAME HERE I TIHNK ITS A FAKE USB I JUST BOUGHT 8 GB AND ITS THE SAME THING AS U SAID

Taz, June 2008

16GB Ameco Flash Drive Branded Lenovo CRAPPOLA. They have loaded some driver/bios that forces a 4GB or 8GB to look like 16GB to the OS. CR*PP*TY CR*P. Got them off ebay and they suck like a black hole. You can get readyboost ready patriot 16GB from newegg and they WORK.

Sebron, April 2008

I am starting to wonder if Ameco is a real company. My first files copied to my 16GB Ameco were corrupted. Doing a "check disk for errors" produced three corrupted folders. This thing seems to be excruciatingly slow. It has got me worried. I am now following the directions on an ebay review on how to test for a fake drive. If you just do a search for "fake USB drive" you will find several resources and you might determine if that is your problem. My tests are inconclusive so far. Not looking good. I know I have corrupted files. Next step is to wipe it clean and reformat.

Mike Lee, April 2008

You prob have a fake Ameco flash Disc.
Don't waste your time on it...
Buy a real USB flash disc. don't forget that today 16GB is the max size.

lengy amnon, April 2008

Wierd in what way? What sort of files/folders? There are some free programs out there that can delete stubborn files or folders which have names that prevent deletion normally.

Have you first of all tried doing a virus scan of your flash drive?

Niko, February 2008