Something weird happened to my flash drive

danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
edited October 2009 in Hardware
I was messing with my 8GB PNY USB flash drive, formatting it in exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS to see which gave it the best amount of storage area (FAT32 is the best, less wasted area) when I noticed the following in the device description (which never used to be there):

果舖創意股份有限公司
OPEN小將不掉蓋隨身碟 4GB-Windows 7上市紀念版
Windows 7上市紀念版
USB flash drive
OPEN小將一體成型，魔法設計不怕蓋子遺失
奈米防汙處哩，防靜電，雙色環保矽膠，可水洗

Which according to Google Language tools translates to:

Fruit Shop Creative Co., Ltd.
OPEN teenager can not afford to build Flash Disk 4GB-Windows 7 public Commemorative Edition
Memorial version of Windows 7 launch
USB flash drive
OPEN teenager body shape, not afraid of magic designed to cover loss
Nano anti-fouling Department mile, anti-static, two-tone green silicone can be washed

Attached it the screenshot showing the description and the logo that is now used for it:

Comments

  • MachineDogMachineDog New
    edited October 2009
    Clearly Google translator sucks ass.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    I had it set on auto language detect (which detected that as Chinese).

    This is the translation you get in Japanese:
    Creative Correction舖crotch fruit Co., Ltd
    OPEN Small碟將不掉蓋隨身Memorial Edition 4GB-Windows 7 launch
    Memorial version of Windows 7 launch
    USB flash drive
    OPEN molding將一España small child lost magic designed not怕蓋
    Proof汙處mile奈米, Ching-proof electrical, environmental protection矽膠雙色, washing Pets
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2009
    NTFS is the least amount of wasted space. Not FAT32.
  • MachineDogMachineDog New
    edited October 2009
    danball1976 wrote:
    I had it set on auto language detect (which detected that as Chinese).

    This is the translation you get in Japanese:
    Creative Correction舖crotch fruit Co., Ltd
    OPEN Small碟將不掉蓋隨身Memorial Edition 4GB-Windows 7 launch
    Memorial version of Windows 7 launch
    USB flash drive
    OPEN molding將一España small child lost magic designed not怕蓋
    Proof汙處mile奈米, Ching-proof electrical, environmental protection矽膠雙色, washing Pets

    My answer remains unchanged.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    NTFS is the least amount of wasted space. Not FAT32.

    I was considering the fact that formatted as FAT32, there is only 4KB of used space, NTFS has 67.7MB of used space (I forgot what its called that NTFS does to use space)

    I'm guessing NTFS does this for redundancy to recover bad sectors. Also, what exactly is exFAT, and how is it different from standard FAT?
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    Oh, found out what that usage is, its NTFS's Metadata that is essentially a log of file activity on the drive.

    It doesn't really explain what happened to the drive. (perhaps its the certain version of Windows 7 I have installed)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited October 2009
    What I really wanted to know is if there's a way to fix this drive's firmware to get it back to normal?
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