I had bought four 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Titaniums from the IT Show a few days back, they seems to be in perfect condition then. Today, I was told that some consumers were sold some refurbished thumb drives, meaning, those thumb drives had been returned to the manufacturer due to defects, then the manufacturer repairs them and releases the repaired items back to the consumer market. Some consumers had been complaining of having a Cruzer that is fulled of scratches while some said they found deleted files in it.

So, armed with the File Recovery Utility (courtesy of SanDisk), I started scanning my four Cruzers for deleted files. The recovery utility was abled to recover some files from the first Cruzer.

And they apparently belongs to SanDisk and Skype.

content of Raw00004.CHM

I continued scanning the remaining three Cruzers, all of them contained the same files as the first.

Then, I found a card in each of the Cruzer boxes, which says “1 month’s free Voicemail.” But apparenly, this promotion had long expired.

Conclusion, these Cruzers are leftovers from the previous SanDisk promotion (which gives the free Voicemail). In order to sell the old stock, either SanDisk or the distributor had deleted the Skype files that were originally included in the Cruzers. And hence, the deleted files. But obviously they had forgotten to remove the Skype promotion card.