Product Code and Serial Numbers Location. Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Is the seller of record and licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products. My sandisk ultra micro SD card has been corrupted recently. I have to show email/SMS from sandisk for RMA reference number. For recovering lost or formatted files in a Sandisk device, we recommend that you choose Sandisk Resuepro.

FAT 12/16 - 4 bytes at offset 0x027 FAT 32 - 4 bytes at offset 0x043 NTFS - 8 bytes at offset 0x48 or by using a myriad of free tools that can be found on the Internet. Volume Serial numbers are important from the forensic investigations stand point and there have been plenty of good material written on this topic.

The most prominent in my view are written by,. Unlike Device Serial Numbers, Volume ID's get captured by all forensic imaging tools.

Device Serial Numbers however have been considered by computer forensic practitioners as more reliable and 'Unique' artefacts. In Windows there are several places when Device Serial Numbers get recorded/logged. Registry key and Windows log files: on Windows XP or on Vista and above are the most obvious one. It is also a well known fact that when a USB flash drive has no serial number, the system assigns to the device its own number with an ampersand symbol as the second character of this serial number. The question is, how 'UNIQUE' these Device Serial numbers are? Well, as it turns out, these numbers are not necessary unique.

There could be several reasons for this. 1. There is a tool that gamers are using to spoof device serial numbers called PB DownForce. It is capable of temporary changing the device serial number. User manual pdf. The serial number can be changed to a random or predefine serial number. USB drives serial numbers are meant to be at least 12 valid characters, represented as a UNICODE string.

'The last 12 digits of the serial number shall be unique to each USB idVendor and idProduct pair' according Valid Serial Number Characters Numeric ASCII 0030h through 0039h '0' through '9' 0041h through 0046h 'A' through 'F These requirements have not been adopted as the mandatory standard and a lot of manufacturers use shorter and in many cases identical numbers on their cheaper drives. Big labels do use 'unique' serial numbers, especially on their upper class, higher capacity USB devices.

Still some reuse serial numbers every 6th million times as in case with one of the popular USB storage manufacturer I had to deal with. Devices can be FAKE. On eBay there are plenty of fake 'false capacity usb flash drives', including brand name counterfeits such as 16GB Kingston, 32GB Sandisk etc. Serial numbers on these devices can be ether, all identical or generated at random. Digital signage software. User can change the device serial number accidentally or on purpose. There are many tools, mostly used to fix faulty USB flash drives, capable of changing the device serial number.

Website is a good place to learn more about fake USB devices and tools capable of changing many parameters on the USB device including the serial number, ability to create, encrypt, hide or write protect certain area on the device. • Alcor • Ameco (MXTronics) • Chipsbank • iCreate • ITE tech • Netac • OTI • Phison • Prolific • RAMOS • Skymedi • SMI (Silicon Motion) • SSS (Solid State System) In addition to USBDeview there is another excellent tool called ChipGenius (by Chinese Developers at mydigit.cn) that provides a lot of useful information about a USB Device. The tool can be used to check pretty much all types of USB devices including external hard drives and MP3 players, detect fakes and view the device controller vendor. It displays chip model, manufacturer, revision number, VID/PID, interface speed, protocol, serial number and media type information. Finally, unlike Volume Serial Numbers most forensic imaging tools don't capture a Device Serial number.