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While putting the finishing touches on the major update to SpinRite (v6.1), one of SpinRite's pre-release testers en-
countered a drive that SpinRite flagged as unable to be used. It turned out this drive only contained storage at its
front. After becoming aware of this significant problem in the industry, I purchased 12 inexpensive 1 & 2 terabyte
thumb drives from Amazon... and every one of them was a bogus fraudulent drive:

Why is this a serious problem?

At first this might seem like a minor annoyance: You purchase a 1 or 2 terabyte drive at a bargain price and you re-
ceive a 64GB drive instead. But that's NOT what happens here!