Hello all<div><br></div><div>I'm having a spot of bother with a small USB hard drive that I recently bought. It's 320GB capacity drive but only 319GB usable to me, the remaining portion is filled with Windows software and .pdf files for the drive and mounts on my Linux system as a "Virtual CD".</div>
<div><br></div><div>When I check it with the mount command it shows as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>/dev/sr1 on /media/WD SmartWare type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,umask=0077)</b></font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I can see it is set as read-only and udf filesystem. I want to be able to delete this partition and the files within it and make it usable to me. I've tried unmounting it and remounting as RW but all that happens is I can see the files delete and then when I mount the drive again the files have returned, I'm guessing due to the UDF formatting. No luck using Gparted, it doesn't see it because it thinks it is a CD so I can't delete this pesky partition there either.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can anybody furnish me with a few suggestions of further things to try? The Western Digital site has a download that you can use to remove this "Virtual CD" but predictably it is for Windows only.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div>