jht129 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Is there a technique to make a regular flash drive into a u3 one? I've googled, but its all too confusing. Irrelevant links. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 no, not unless u have a flash drive that is capable of running U3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 *sigh* Unless the drive has the necessary hardware to support U3 technology it won't work. Apparently some Memorex drives aren't marked as U3 but in fact are, there's a thread about it somewhere here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 oh alright, thanks... i already read that thread... there must be a crack somewhere out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 To the best of my knowledge the hardware in an U3 drive is different from that in a regular flash drive, you can't physically make a non-U3 device to an U3 device without significant modifications to the hardware inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 from what ive learnt Moonlit is correct all the way, suposavly 'Memorex' have found it to be cheaper to just mass produce U3 tech, it is done this way so that 1 machine can make all flash drives, the difference is the storage chips, when they are being created they are either flashed with U3 image or a Non-U3 image, simply the Non-U3 sells for less, and is normaly a lower Capacity, the found one here being 32 meg (i think). Though it seems not all Memorex flash drives units are produced in the same factory so only set models are U3 fakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 thanks guys... i guess ill have to buy a memorex now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 We had a thread about this internally that got some headway but I'm not sure where it stands at the moment. I've moved the thread to this board in hopes that the community can get more involved in its development. See http://www.hak5.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 wow thats pretty cool... ill have to read up on that million page thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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