I need to low-format a fake Chinese USB Drive from 32GB to 8GB (actual capacity)

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Yeah my friend bought a few of these in China and they’re fakes lol. Does anyone know what the exact formatted capacity of an 8GB drive is? I need to low-format this drive so I can sell them off as 8GB so they work fine.

Basically in windows explorer it shows 32GB but it corrupts after 8GB, so I assume it has an 8GB chip with a hacked controller.

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Is this Kingston by any chance? Research suggests its not possible, its the controller that’s actually faking the value.

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yeah it’s a Kingston Datatraveler

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plenty of people have bought the fake Kingston 32GB drives (on ebay), there’s no fix for it, that I know of.