If you are lucky (like me) you can obtain acces to their ftp and download firmware upgrade and repair bricked unit.įirst partition has inside one file named 'Exmp.zip' (in my case). You can do this only if you contact Kingston support.
You want to bypass AES chip and you can't do this by software methods.īe carefull because you can destroy contents on the first partition (is mounted like CD-ROM unit) and need to replace software in it (like a firmware upgrade). In fact this encryption is heart of this kind of units. As I know you have no chance to disable this feature and after that, your unit act as normal one, without encryption. My model is also with hardware encryption. I have something similar (DTSP model from Kingston).
You can find original manual for your model. Maybe I could also try the key on a Linux machine and check if I can format it there. Unfortunately I don't know how I could trick the software to make it think the key just a normal one or what to do with the ROM code. I can try to set a password and see if it's possible then to format the encrypted partition. I have one completely unused Kingstons Locker+ key where I didn't set any password yet to encrypt the drive. One 8.31 MB CD-Rom partition named DTLplus which contains the autostart files and the manual and one inaccessible removal drive. When I plug in the key it creates two drives. Thanks for your reply! Yeah, you're correct. The other question is if the USB stick's ROM code can be fooled this way. Maybe the software to set the password can be tricked to think the '+' USB stick is just an normal one, which allows unencrypted partitions. I don't know if this works with 'DataTraveler Locker+', since there isn't really any need to allow this kind of operation if you can't create an unencrypted partition at all. On the normal 'DataTraveler Locker' the encrypted partition can be disabled by simply formating it with FAT32 or NTFS using Windows Explorer. Kingston Format Utility is an unassuming and small Windows piece of software that makes it as simple as possible for you to format Kingston HyperX series (DTHX30/XXGB) USB flash drives. For some reason, the formatting failed, and now whenever I try to format it normally (right clicking the drive on my computer) it says. I just bought a KINGSTON 16GB USB Drive, and I needed it to be NTFS instead of FAT32. Reformat Kingston Datatraveler Usb Drive.Then it executes an autorun program from this partition which sends the password to the USB stick, which will make a 2nd encrypted partition available giving it a new drive letter. As far as I understood the manual, when you plug in the drive into an USB port, the OS gives the first (small) partition a drive letter. The normal one has the ability to create an encrypted partition in addition to the unencrypted one, the '+' has only an encrypted partition. Kinston sells two different USB sticks, 'DataTraveler Locker' and 'DataTraveler Locker+'.
I tried to find out some information about the drive.