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> Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares. You mean they do this manually by plugging each drive? I wo
by jmnicolas 6y ago
> Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares.
You mean they do this manually by plugging each drive? I would have thought the "bloatware" was already written on flash.
- bayindirh 6y agoIn a manner, yes. Flash programming and controller tuning is done on fully assembled USB drives. I've re-programmed a handful of flash drives of my own to mark damaged cells and in some case restore a flash storage map to return the drive to life. Transcend has a one-click utility which does everything automagically to restore malfunctioning drives to best possible condition. Flash controllers are much more intelligent than they look. They're almost black-magic like.