If a fake flash drive is a concern, use H2TestW as mentioned here. http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/h2testw-gold-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/

If the drive's good, it should work with no errors. If it's burned with a fake capacity, it'll let you know what the real capacity was.

Also, if the drive is not fake but has a defect, it'll catch that too. I have had several Sandisk MicroSD cards go bad and H2TestW reminds me that the corruption problems aren't my fault, it's the card's... zowie!

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Jeff Melton <W5JNM@arrl.net> wrote:

Sorry to chase this rabbit trail, but my search of the wiki
<http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home> for the procedure
you mention didn't return any results. Can someone kindly point this
n00b in the right direction?

Jeff
W5JNM -at- ARRL

On 7/30/13 11:14 PM, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:30:46 -0600
> From: David Evans<kd7uch@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Bootable Chirp CD & Thumb-drive
> To: Discussion of CHIRP<chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com>
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>
> Jim,
> That is the way I crested mine. It is the procedure described in the wiki.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> kd7uch@arrl.net

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