Monitoring health of a pendrive & formattig tool

billubakra

Conversation Architect
Hi Guys,

Which software is good for monitoring health of a pendrive?Crystal Disk Info is not detecting the same. And I have a years old Tata Photon dongle, how to format it so that I can use the same as a pen drive?

Thanks
 

Ascendant001

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Staff member
I don't think it is possible as pen drives usually don't have in-built S.M.A.R.T. sensors which software like crystaldisk get their info from.I also don't think it is possible to use any 3g/4g dongle as pen drive because the flash inside a dongle is read only containing dialer software & driver meant for fully self contained install of dongle on windows system.
 
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billubakra

Conversation Architect
I don't think it is possible as pen drives usually don't have in-built S.M.A.R.T. sensors which software like crystaldisk get their info from.I also don't think it is possible to use any 3g/4g dongle as pen drive because the flash inside a dongle is read only containing dialer software & driver meant for fully self contained install of dongle on windows system.
Thanks Brother. I wonder why they have mentioned 4gb flash on the dongle then.
 

Ascendant001

Super Moderator
Staff member
You may have misunderstood,I think it meant dongle can support upto 4gb microSD card in its microSD card slot(usually 3g/4g dongles have card slot for storage just like mobile phones).
 

Flash

Lost in speed
Is this the one you're having?
*www.tatadocomo.com/Downloads/Personal/user-manuals/Huawei-EC156-User-Manual.pdf

Manual shows it has a slot of microSD.
 
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billubakra

Conversation Architect
Is this the one you're having?
*www.tatadocomo.com/Downloads/Personal/user-manuals/Huawei-EC156-User-Manual.pdf

Manual shows it has a slot of microSD.
It is this one apparently, I had to remove that docomo sticker to open the side seal
*www.flipkart.com/zte-mf190-3g-data-card/p/itmdhhrb6jwx9gjs
Memory card upto 32gb supported. About 100 mb space is filled with the installer files, how to remove this crap? And will it support Jio sim?
 

Ascendant001

Super Moderator
Staff member
As far as I know,such dongle's installer files are on a read only memory flash & cannot be removed by your usual methods(why all the trouble for 100mb anyway?).4g is different from 3g & since jio 4g only works on VoLTE 4g such 3g dongles will not support it.
 
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