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Topic Unknown USB device not recognized by Windows

Tony

21-Mar(#1)

Near me is a Goodwill Outlet where everything is sold by the pound. In a laptop bag I found what I thought was a flash drive. It is very light, so I gambled and bought it for a few cents. The main body is a disk about the diameter of a quarter and about 3/8 of an inch thick. It is flat on one side and slightly concave on the other. There is no response at all when I plug it into a USB port on my Windows computer.

Any ideas on what this might be?

ClearSights

21-Mar(#2)

Any pics?

sinnie

21-Mar(#3)

probably a dead drive

langev

21-Mar(#4)

A dongle tied to a software program?

KCPenguins

* 21-Mar(#5)

langev wrote:

> A dongle tied to a software program?

I like this guess.

Another option:
Does it have a button or capacitive reactive pad? It could be a security key/token.

Foxhack

21-Mar(#6)

It might be a part of another device. I do this too, usually end up with pieces I can't do anything with. :p

Tony

21-Mar(#7)

I'm afraid I don't use an online image host, so I don't know how to upload a photo to this thread. I tried to do an image search for USB devices, but I didn't find anything that looks like this.

Like many flash drives, it has a wrist strap on the side directly opposite the USB port, but it there is no manufacturer identification or anything that might identify its purpose anywhere on it.

HybridCRoW

22-Mar(#8)

And this is how you get hacked/a virus/cold/flu/whatever... sticking unknown things where they shouldn't belong.

On-topic... I'm curious to see what this looks like because it sounds vaguely familiar.

Shadowrunner

22-Mar(#9)

Could be a license dongle.

EclipseLion

25-Mar(#10)

HybridCRoW wrote:

> And this is how you get hacked/a virus/cold/flu/whatever... sticking unknown things

> where they shouldn't belong.

> On-topic... I'm curious to see what this looks like because it sounds vaguely familiar.

This

HybridCRoW

25-Mar(#11)

They sent me picture of device...

I believe it's possibly something to do with this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&lo...

Tony

* 25-Mar(#12)

HybridCRoW wrote:

> They sent me picture of device...

> I believe it's possibly something to do with this:

> https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&lo...

That looks exactly like the item I have. Thank you for your help.

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