<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi again - I removed the ISO9660 volume by visiting the SanDisk page and hunting around until I found a removal tool, but I did this using Windows XP - I'm sure that you could remove and re-format your drive this way using a friend's Windows box and use it as a normal thumb-drive on any platform.<br><br>They try to tell you not to do it - you're throwing away all the best bits and such - but it's easy enough.<br><br>Regards, Bob.<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: ForkBombFluf <fluf@freeshell.org><br>To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:18:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] U3 Flash Drives<br><br>On Tue,
29 Jul 2008, Bob Marshall wrote:<br><br>> If I remember correctly, there was something in a recent Micro Mart <br>> about U3 drives, but I'm almost certain that the ISO 9660 "partition", <br>> which is the way the drive and its apps can start straight off isn't <br>> writable.<br>><br>> I had a U3 drive and got quite p***ed off with it, so I stripped out the <br>> partition and loaded it up with stuff from "Portable Apps", which worked <br>> just as well, IMHO.<br>><br>> Sorry I can't be of more help.<br>><br>> Bob.<br><br>Hi Bob,<br><br>No problem, and thanks for the reply.<br><br>Funnily enough The U3 on my SanDisk, which is touted to make life with <br>Windows so much happier and easier, renders both of my XP installs <br>completely unresponsive-- fixed only by rebooting! (After a bit of <br>reading, I'm guessing this may be due to installations of Nero freaking <br>out over the ISO9660 volume, but all the
same...) The U3 stuff does seem <br>to load and work OK on some other Windows machines though.<br><br>Further to what I posted before, there does seem to be a way to disable <br>the Launchpad autolaunching in Windows (at least with some versions of U3) <br>It would appear that the utility just writes an empty file called <br>DisableAutoRun.txt in the hidden "System" folder on the main (writeable) <br>partition of the drive. Unfortunately this does nothing to alter the <br>existance of the ISO9660 volume, though. (and still crashes my XP <br>installs. Die, U3, die!)<br><br>Disturbingly, there still seems to be no simple removal tool available at <br>all for non-Windows systems.<br><br>Were you able to remove the ISO9660 partition from your flash drive under <br>Linux using some combo of fdisk, dd, parted, etc? I thought this might be <br>troublesome, seeing as I was having no success in unmounting it in Kubuntu <br>(constantly
says its in use, even though I've not opened anything on it). <br>Is there an easy way to stop it mounting in the first place, then clobber <br>it?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>-Stef<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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