What is VID and PID devices. How to find out vid, PID flash drives and why do these identification numbers serve? What to do next

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Probably for the majority, who is more often working with a computer, there is a flash drive (or even one). Sometimes it happens that the flash drive ceases to work normally, for example, with unsuccessful formatting or as a result of any errors.

Quite often, the file system can be recognized in such cases as RAW, formatting a flash drive cannot be made, go to it too ... What to do in that case? Take advantage of this small instruction!

This manual for restoring the flash drive is designed for a variety of problems with USB media, except for mechanical damage (the manufacturer of the flash drive can be, in principle, any: Kingston, Silicon-Power, Transced, Data Traveler, A-Data, etc.).

And so ... proceed. All actions will be painted in steps.

1. Determining the parameters of the flash drive (manufacturer, the controller brand, the number of memory).

It would seem that difficult in defining the parameters of the flash drive, the more the manufacturer and the number of memory is practically always on the flash drive case. The point here is that the USB drives of even one model range and one manufacturer can be with different controllers. From this, simple output flows out - to restore the performance of the flash drive, you must first determine the controller brand to correctly in order to correctly select the treatment utility.

Typical view of the flash drive (from within) - a board with a microcham.

To determine the controller brand there are special number-letter values \u200b\u200bset by the VID and PID parameters.

VID - Vendor ID
PID - PRODUKT ID

For different controllers, they will be different!

If you do not want to kill the USB flash drive, then do not use utilities that are not intended for your VID / PID. Very often because of the incorrectly selected utility, the flash drive comes in disrepair.

How to determine VID and PID?

The easiest option is to run a small free utility Checkudisk. And choose your flash drive in the list of devices. Next, you will see all the necessary parameters to restore the flash drive. See Screenshot below.

VID / PID can be found and using utility.

To do this, you need to go to the Device Manager. In Windows 7/8, it is convenient to do through the search in the control panel (see Screenshot below).

In the device manager, the USB flash drive manager is usually marked as a "USB storage device", you need to click on this device with the right mouse button and go to its properties (as in the picture below).

In the "Details" tab, select the E ED END option - the VID / PID will seem before you. In my case (in the screenshot below) these parameters are equal:

2. Search for the necessary utility for treatment (low-level formatting)

Knowing Vid and Pid We need to find a special utility suitable for the restoration of our flash drive. It is very convenient to do this, for example, on the site: FlashBoot.ru/iflash/

If on the site suddenly under your model nothing will be found, it is best to use the search engine: Google or Yandex (query, type: Silicon Power VID 13FE PID 3600).

In my case, for a flash drive on the FlashBoot.ru website, the Formatter SiliconPower utility was recommended.

If you used a flash drive for many years, and no problems arose, but in one day when it is connected to a computer, it was determined as an unknown USB device, or did not determine at all, it means that you need to deal with the problem. Remember whether you did not drop it. If there was such a case, then the damage is physical, and these tips will not help.

If you did not use the safe extract when the flash drive is turned off from the computer or it stopped defined after formatting, then you can choose some program by VID and PID to help restore the USB drive.

About what is VID and PID, and how to find out these parameters will be discussed in this article. Vid - identifies the manufacturer, and the PID is directly directly. Flashpels that produce large firms are taken certain values \u200b\u200bof each parameter and are assigned to all USB drives. For example, all TRANSCEND VID flash drives - 8564, and PID - 1000. Some manufacturers are left for the VID and PID USB drive, as well as the controller installed in it. Well, if you have a cheap Chinese flash drive, then Vid and PID are just random, meaningless, numbers.

If you format the drive of any unsuitable program, it can stop working at all. Let's consider ways using which, it turns out to know the values \u200b\u200byou need. Then it will be necessary to simply use the online service in which the base of suitable programs for restoring the flash drive of a specific model is collected.

Using device dispatcher

The easiest way to find out the VID and PID is to see these values \u200b\u200bby opening the device manager.

In Windows 7, click on the Start button and select on the right list. If you do not have this item, type "Control Panel" in the search bar and click on the appropriate result.

If you have Windows 10 installed, then right-click on the Start button and select from the menu.

Then click on the mouse twice "USB Controllers". In the unfolded list you need to choose "Memory device for USB" And click on it with the right mouse button. If your flash drive has not decided, then you will have item like "Uncertain USB device". Further from the context menu, select.

In the next window, go to the tab "Details" tab. In the top field "Property" from the drop-down list, select "ENGLISH ID". Bully below in the "Value" field will be indicated VID and PID.

Using utilities

There are a lot of programs that will help you find out the VID values \u200b\u200band a USB drive. In addition, they will show other information about your device. Let's look at several popular programs.

Flash Drive Information Extractor

Flash Drive Information Extractor features all the necessary information about a USB drive. Insert the USB flash drive to the free port and wait a minute. Then run the program and click in the window that opens "Show information about flash drive".

The program will very quickly give the result. Find the VID and PID fields and see what values \u200b\u200byour flash drive.

Chipeasy.

Chipeasy will show a little less information than the previous program, but you can see the parameters you need. Run the program and in the upper box twice click on the desired USB drive.

In the area with detailed information in the "Device ID" field, VID and PID will be shown.

Chipgenius.

With the CHIPGENIUS program, everything is also very simple. Run it and click on the connected flash drive in the top area to view detailed information about it. Then a little lower in the "USB Device ID" field, look at the parameters of interest.

USBDEView.

The USBDEVIEW program must be selected depending on the bit of your operating system. If you have 32-bit Windows installed, then select the appropriate USBDEVIEW file and start it if the 64-bit bit, then you start the file where there is a number 64 in the name.

The main window of the program displays all devices that ever connected to your computer or laptop. Find your flash drive in this list may be difficult, so click on the "Settings" button and remove the checkbox in the field.

Now the main window displays only those devices that are connected to a computer at the moment. Find your device in the list, and click on it.

The properties window opens. In it, we will be interested in two parameters: "Product Code" is a PID, and the Supplier Code is VID. The same parameters can be viewed in the lower right field "Device instance code".

How to look at the USB drive itself

If you find out the VID and PID data using various programs, it is not possible to disassemble the flash drive. Do it carefully to damage anything, otherwise the device will definitely become non-working.

On the board of each flash drive there is a black rectangle or a square - this is a controller. You can see the marking. For example, the Kingston flash drive has a PS2251-37x controller. Knowing the controller labeling can also be correctly selected the restore method for the flash drive.

After you learned the VID and PID values, you can use the IFLASH online service. Here the base is collected, which the users themselves create, what program, which flash drive is best reanimated.

On the main page of the Service, enter your data in the "VID" and "PID" fields and click the "Search" button.

The table appears on the page. In the first column it will be written, who manufacturer, in the second column there will be data about the model. The Chip Model column provides information about the controller.

Find your flash drive to these parameters, and if you're lucky, in the last column there will be a utility name that can be used to restore your flash drive.

Return your flash drive to life using the correct program. You can choose it by learning the VID and the PID of the USB drive. And how to do it, you already know.

If you used a flash drive for many years, and no problems arose, but in one day when it is connected to a computer, it was determined as an unknown USB device, or did not determine at all, it means that you need to deal with the problem. Remember whether you did not drop it. If there was such a case, then the damage is physical, and these tips will not help.

If you did not use the safe extract when the flash drive is turned off from the computer or it stopped defined after formatting, then you can choose some program by VID and PID to help restore the USB drive.

About what is VID and PID, and how to find out these parameters will be discussed in this article. Vid - identifies the manufacturer, and the PID is directly directly. Flashpels that produce large firms are taken certain values \u200b\u200bof each parameter and are assigned to all USB drives. For example, all TRANSCEND VID flash drives - 8564, and PID - 1000. Some manufacturers are left for the VID and PID USB drive, as well as the controller installed in it. Well, if you have a cheap Chinese flash drive, then Vid and PID are just random, meaningless, numbers.

If you format the drive of any unsuitable program, it can stop working at all. Let's consider ways using which, it turns out to know the values \u200b\u200byou need. Then it will be necessary to simply use the online service in which the base of suitable programs for restoring the flash drive of a specific model is collected.

Using device dispatcher

The easiest way to find out the VID and PID is to see these values \u200b\u200bby opening the device manager.

In Windows 7, click on the Start button and select on the right list. If you do not have this item, type "Control Panel" in the search bar and click on the appropriate result.

If you have Windows 10 installed, then right-click on the Start button and select from the menu.

Then click on the mouse twice "USB Controllers". In the unfolded list you need to choose "Memory device for USB" And click on it with the right mouse button. If your flash drive has not decided, then you will have item like "Uncertain USB device". Further from the context menu, select.

In the next window, go to the tab "Details" tab. In the top field "Property" from the drop-down list, select "ENGLISH ID". Bully below in the "Value" field will be indicated VID and PID.

Using utilities

There are a lot of programs that will help you find out the VID values \u200b\u200band a USB drive. In addition, they will show other information about your device. Let's look at several popular programs.

Flash Drive Information Extractor

Flash Drive Information Extractor features all the necessary information about a USB drive. Insert the USB flash drive to the free port and wait a minute. Then run the program and click in the window that opens "Show information about flash drive".

The program will very quickly give the result. Find the VID and PID fields and see what values \u200b\u200byour flash drive.

Chipeasy.

Chipeasy will show a little less information than the previous program, but you can see the parameters you need. Run the program and in the upper box twice click on the desired USB drive.

In the area with detailed information in the "Device ID" field, VID and PID will be shown.

Chipgenius.

With the CHIPGENIUS program, everything is also very simple. Run it and click on the connected flash drive in the top area to view detailed information about it. Then a little lower in the "USB Device ID" field, look at the parameters of interest.

USBDEView.

The USBDEVIEW program must be selected depending on the bit of your operating system. If you have 32-bit Windows installed, then select the appropriate USBDEVIEW file and start it if the 64-bit bit, then you start the file where there is a number 64 in the name.

The main window of the program displays all devices that ever connected to your computer or laptop. Find your flash drive in this list may be difficult, so click on the "Settings" button and remove the checkbox in the field.

Now the main window displays only those devices that are connected to a computer at the moment. Find your device in the list, and click on it.

The properties window opens. In it, we will be interested in two parameters: "Product Code" is a PID, and the Supplier Code is VID. The same parameters can be viewed in the lower right field "Device instance code".

How to look at the USB drive itself

If you find out the VID and PID data using various programs, it is not possible to disassemble the flash drive. Do it carefully to damage anything, otherwise the device will definitely become non-working.

On the board of each flash drive there is a black rectangle or a square - this is a controller. You can see the marking. For example, the Kingston flash drive has a PS2251-37x controller. Knowing the controller labeling can also be correctly selected the restore method for the flash drive.

After you learned the VID and PID values, you can use the IFLASH online service. Here the base is collected, which the users themselves create, what program, which flash drive is best reanimated.

On the main page of the Service, enter your data in the "VID" and "PID" fields and click the "Search" button.

The table appears on the page. In the first column it will be written, who manufacturer, in the second column there will be data about the model. The Chip Model column provides information about the controller.

Find your flash drive to these parameters, and if you're lucky, in the last column there will be a utility name that can be used to restore your flash drive.

Return your flash drive to life using the correct program. You can choose it by learning the VID and the PID of the USB drive. And how to do it, you already know.

And deny any USB flash drive or an external hard disk by characteristic of the storage characteristic: on design, the volume of available disk space, in the trademark, in the end. But how to distinguish one drive from another professionally: how to get information on the basis of which chip and controller USB drive was made? Here, quite by the way, PID and VID identification numbers will come. Using these ID numbers, you can find out all sorts of technical characteristics of the drive without opening the device body and examining the labels seized in the device components. In this article we will tell you how to find out vid, PID flash drives and what the identifiers are for what they need and what are their functions.

So, at first, a few words about what PID and VID is, and for what they serve. PID is assigned engineers and designers of the device manufacturer by the identifier. It is not always unique, sometimes several USB drives from one line and series of release can have identical PID numbers. In turn, the VID number is the identifier of the trade brand engaged in the manufacture of the adaptation itself. Having a PID and VID numbers on the hands, you can get accurate information about the wrench in the Flash memory of the drive controller and the device-manufacturer of the device. What is the function of these identifiers and what else are they necessary for? If your flash drive or external HDD is faulty, has bang boot or, or not defined when connected, having received the exact data on the specified numbers, you can determine with absolute accuracy, which service tool is suitable for repairing the device and return to the workshop.

Since appropriate financial investments are required to personify VID and PID identifiers, individual manufacturers indicate them arbitrarily, in accordance with their desires and preferences. Thus, such a curiosity may occur that two fully similar in the designer relations of the USB drive will be labeled by identical VID and PID numbers, but controllers on the basis of which these devices are manufactured, designed by two different trading brands, and, therefore, to restore performance Devices, you will need absolutely discrete system programs. What to do in such a situation? If you have identified VID and PID values, identified the data recovery utility suitable for them, and as a result it is not suitable for inherent in tasks, nothing, nothing remains except to open the hull of the drive and see the physical marking of the controller on the chip. Based on this data and it is worth selecting a suitable program.

One important moment: in the memory cards of the SD format, MMC, microSD VID and PID articles are not registered. Therefore, it would not be possible to find out the above numbers for these devices. If you use the utilities presented in this material, you can only get information about the card reader ID.

Well, how to find out vid, pid Flashki and what utilities can we help in this goal? Read more about it.

Chipgenius.

One of the best products among those you can find on the network. His author is a programmer from the Hit00 copyright nickname. Initially, this utility first saw the light on the forum dedicated to digital gadgets, and everything is connected with them, called MyDigit, and since then it has been firmly strengthened on digital IT portals and specialized technical resources. The program is able to find out the VID, PID flash drives, card reader, MP3 player and other USB gadgets. The distinctive feature of Chipgenius from other applications of this kind is the maximum degree of compatibility with the controllers of a wide variety of devices modifications, so this tool is greatly popular with systemic engineers and technical specialists engaged in the repair of digital gadgets. If you need to extract VID data, PID numbers, only insert the drive into a free USB port, and a window with technical data will immediately appear on the display. If you need to analyze one or more devices, we recommend using chipgenius in a bundle with Flash Drive Information Extractor, since there is no one worthwhile alternative to this couple in the network.

Flash Drive Information Extractor

This application applies to a completely free basis and provides a detailed answer to the question, how to find out VID, PID flash drives and other USB media. This software product provides the data on the model and the type of memory, modify the controller most of the current external drives and devices. The main characteristic feature of the utility is the definition of information on a variety of parameters, and not only using VID and PID, and this, in turn, provides a chance to obtain the highest possible and accurate data.

The program is capable of responding only to connecting USB drives (in particular, flash drives), and unable to interact with other devices connected by the above interface: smartphones, MP3 players, cameras, etc.

The authors of the utilities advise to start the program launch not earlier than 30-40 seconds after that moment when the flash gadget was inserted into a USB port, otherwise such a situation may occur when the device cannot be initialized by the axis.

Chipeasy.

This utility (this time, again from Chinese developers) is very simple and unpretentious to the system resources of the PC. In addition to identification of PID, VID flash drives, Chipeasy will determine the FID and the most likely used memory model, to get information about the program firmware (Firmware), modifications and serial controller number, the maximum value of the current force that is consumed by the diagnosed device. In the work, the program shows itself incredibly reliable and stable, and its effectiveness exceeds all your expectations. With the help of a mouse alone, an HTML report formation feature is available with basic data on the desired device. As a result, it can literally instantly save in the cloud or send to print.

USBDEView.

This tool is able to identify all USB-devices connected to the PC, and the most rare and least common. In addition to flash drives, you can get information about external HDD drives, digital MP3 players, card readers and other devices connected to a PC via USB port. If you need to get data on PID and VID rooms, and other applications did not help you, certainly try in USBDEView. The program product presented is fully translated into Russian.

The system applications described above will provide you with a detailed and full response to the question: "How to find out Vid, PID flash drives." We hope that one of them will help you in solving the problem, and with the help of these identifiers you will be able to find a suitable program for repairing a USB carrier, no matter how serious this problem is.

Utilities for low-level work with USB flash drives allow you to restore the real amount of drive, eliminate errors in the work, establish the operation of the controller, etc. But the main feature of such programs is very narrow-directed. And only with their help is possible or memory cards. For each chip and even the controller has its own, specialized program. And while you won't find it, no restoration or resuscitation of the flash drive can not be speech.

How to identify a memory chip, vid and pid on a flash drive without opening the drive?

All the following programs are completely free and show the most accurate data.

There are special programs for diagnosing flash drives and memory cards. It is with their help that you can find out all the necessary information. First of all, these are programs like Chip Genius, Checkudisk, USBDEVIEW and others.

one . Determining the memory chip, VID and PID using chipgenius. This is one of the most comfortable and powerful utilities in its class. The main feature of the program is an automatic update when recognizing the memory chip. The utility connects to the server and updates the database, so shows the best results.

2. These parameters can be found with Checkudisk. A pretty good functional program that allows you to find out all information about flash drives in seconds. However, in some cases, the memory chip cannot recognize, especially when it comes to Chinese memory chips of little-known manufacturers.

3. USBDEVIEW - another diagnostic program for USB flash drive. Allows quickly and without more effort to learn all the necessary information for finding low-level utilities formatting flash drives.

These are the most convenient and functional programs for working with USB flash drives that must be used to restore. Of course, this is not a complete list of possible ways to resuscitate memory cards. Depending on the situation and the presence of free time, others need to try.