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Repair Tool of the Week: Check Flash

Check Flash (aka ChkFlsh) is a small, stand alone, portable utility designed to check the health of flash drives. The most useful part of Check Flash is that it can run a read and write test on the drive. During the read and write test it fills the flash drive up with a temporary file to make sure the flash drive is the size that it says it is. This is an issue as many fake flash drives like the cheap ones available on eBay are hacked to report to Windows that they are 8GB or so, but are really only 64mb.
Check Flash also has a “drive map” section which will show you any bad sectors on your flash drive.

Check Flash can also run a readability test on the drive and save/load an image of the files on the drive for backup purposes.

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kprt says:

March 26th, 2008 at 7:18 am

I like flash drive testers as I was one of those who was ripped off with a fake from ebay. Will give this one a go. One that I like is testdrive, very simple, runs in a command prompt.

KoalaBear says:

March 26th, 2008 at 7:32 am

I always used HD Tune. http://www.hdtune.com

The freeware version, since a couple of weeks is a shareware version (pro) available, freeware is perfect.

Abby says:

March 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am

I am interested to try this new tool to my flash drive. Thanks for the info.

Computer Techs says:

March 30th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

I got a 16 GB flash drive off ebay that doesn’t work. Seems to boost Vista’s ready boost… but doesn’t work with files.

St. Pete PC Repair says:

March 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Now that’s just wrong… if you can’t trust eBay, who can you trust?

Steve Elliott says:

April 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Sorry St Pete but I can’t agree with you on that, unless that was an attempt at sarcasm. There are some fantastic traders on eBay but your comment is a bit narrow.

Trust Amazon maybe. Trust eBay as a company even. But not everyone who sells on there.

Anton says:

April 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am

I have downloaded and installed this program, but I can’t check my flash drive because my flash drive is H but in that program the flash drive is A.

Computerden says:

April 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am

Great wee tool. Thanks alot!

Administrator says:

April 13th, 2008 at 1:18 am

Anton, use the dropdown where it says “A:” and select your USB drive.

Stormin says:

August 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

After running ChkFlsh, it reports a number of errors on my ‘Ebay’ 16GB Drive (584 errors in fact). But where in the results does it show you the true size of the drive? I can’t seems to see that info. Thanks, Norm.