Leo closed the MPTool and opened his standard file explorer. The drive popped up instantly. It was wiped clean, its bad sectors mapped out and isolated, and its firmware completely restored to factory perfection.

: Scans the NAND flash memory and maps out defective areas to stabilize the drive, though this often results in a smaller usable capacity. Custom Partitioning

If you go searching for MPTOOLs online, you will find hundreds of EXE files, cracked ports, and Chinese utilities. Most of them are dangerous. Loading the wrong firmware onto a USB drive is like installing an iPhone BIOS onto an Android phone—it will permanently brick the device.