![Fake Kingston Pendrive In Windows Device Manager](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2lhPHpsU_8dqsydeJILkE-sr-z8x92M_e_osVLHlNU7F79GfFT-p9URLJ9Qel7pp_-u2Frf128TrDinCeDX8GaRgJJjKS5dbWiZL9GoQjLZbLqCxftP1X7Pj0m8ZqKXTi_Cb8xGW_Oc/s0/DeviceManager_KingstonDataTraveller100G3_64GB.JPG" "Fake Kingston Pendrive In Windows Device Manager")
Man, I almost got fooled. I have bought so many pendrives online before (all genuine until now) that I didn't think I would fall for one. A scam, a fake, a counterfeit.
I didn't suspect anything when I first received this 'Kingston' pendrive. As a matter of fact, I gave this seller a 5 Star rating and quite a good review for this purchase.
But one evening, Windows bombed out while I was copying a large number of files, totalling about 2 GB in size. This pendrive was still detectable but the files and folders were not viewable in Windows Explorer. I panicked. What has gone wrong? And what's this with Windows Device Manager detecting this pendrive as 'SMI USB DISK USB Device' and not as 'Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device'?
