Dongle Security

[Jaspreet Singh]

Originally Posted by ian

hello guys i am new to dongles and i don't know where to start.

i have a usb that is identified as HID device , this USB used to be a 64GB storage device , but after one of my freinds did some encryption , it changed to this state.

Storage device cannot magikally turn into dongle.
The usb storage drive just now got corrupted. It maybe or not maybe possible to format it at low level to turn it back into storage device.
You can also try to flash firmware from the usb device's website or contact support for the firmware.

[ian]

Originally Posted by Jaspreet Singh

Storage device cannot magikally turn into dongle.
The usb storage drive just now got corrupted. It maybe or not maybe possible to format it at low level to turn it back into storage device.
You can also try to flash firmware from the usb device's website or contact support for the firmware.

thanks , i tried a bunch of softwares including low level formating , the problem no software can recognise the USB as storage device.

[Jaspreet Singh]

Originally Posted by ian

thanks , i tried a bunch of softwares including low level formating , the problem no software can recognise the USB as storage device.

Based on your issue, you can solve the problem if you can get the firmware from the usb vendor and then flash it. They may tell you the steps also. Then it will use the correct driver after flash and start to behave like storage device again.

@Jupither I know that they can be switched to HID mode. He is saying that it was a pure storage device. A dongle is generally security device. His friend probably flashed it with wrong firmware so it now shows itself as some unknon HID device to pc.

[Jupiter]

Originally Posted by Jaspreet Singh

Storage device cannot magikally turn into dongle.

But some USB devices can be switched to HID mode.

Originally Posted by ian

I tried a bunch of softwares including low level formatting, the problem no software can recognise the USB as storage device.

The question is:
Why do you ignore specific replies in this tread?

sendersu asked you about your device, especially VID and PID, picture of your device, but you ignored his reply.

Did you try to check if you device in HID mode?