Hey guys,
I got a 400GB sandisk card around a year ago. I ran some tests on it then to confirm it was legit (FAKEFLASHTEST etc) and received no errors, but as of today, I'm unable to format the card. I've tried different programs (EaseUS, diskpart etc) and the formatting always completes without errors, but it's not actually being formatted, the data remains (the same goes for cleaning the card). Now I've run FAKEFLASHTEST again along with RMPrepUSB and they're both reporting errors at numerous blocks. Has this been caused by some sort of fault, or was the drive fake all along? Is there anything else I can try to fix it? I've also tried disabling read only access, but I don't think that was ever the issue.
I got a 400GB sandisk card around a year ago. I ran some tests on it then to confirm it was legit (FAKEFLASHTEST etc) and received no errors, but as of today, I'm unable to format the card. I've tried different programs (EaseUS, diskpart etc) and the formatting always completes without errors, but it's not actually being formatted, the data remains (the same goes for cleaning the card). Now I've run FAKEFLASHTEST again along with RMPrepUSB and they're both reporting errors at numerous blocks. Has this been caused by some sort of fault, or was the drive fake all along? Is there anything else I can try to fix it? I've also tried disabling read only access, but I don't think that was ever the issue.