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Flash Memory Toolkit offers diagnostics, repair tools for USB drives


Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
04.11.2007
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USB drives become more indispensable every day. They make great tools for ad-hoc data backup and moving files, and when formatted with a bootable disk image, they can be used for everything from system recovery to booting a standalone OS (e.g., Knoppix).

As a result, I've started keeping tabs on utilities designed specifically for USB flash drives. One utility I discovered recently is EFD Software's Flash Memory Toolkit, which runs on all 32-bit versions of Windows (including Vista). Since it needs to be installed to run, it's not a stand-alone program and can't be run as-is from a USB drive, but it's very small and installs with virtually no system overhead.

The kit includes these six tools:

The Flash Memory Toolkit normally costs $39.95 per instance, but the free version of the program can still be used as-is with some of


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its functions disabled. For instance, most of the test tools, for instance, will work in read-only mode and will not conduct write tests. The file benchmark test, however, runs in both read and write modes in the demo version.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Insight, (formerly the Windows Power Users Newsletter), a blog site devoted to hints, tips, tricks and news for users and administrators of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista. He has more than 12 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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