[nmglug] ativa flash drive with u3 and iso9660 partition.. arrgg

[Tim Emerick]

What I did with Windows XP (and might apply to linux) was to erase and re-create/format the Fat16 partition using the XP tools.  

For linux I can imagine you just unmount /dev/scd0, unmount /dev/sda1, then repartition and reformat /dev/sda1.

I found it Interesting to know that the U3 partition automounted even under linux.  I thought that was a Windows only thing.

fwiw, my U3 drive is a sandisk micro cruzer and there are quite a few windows utilities for manipulating the drive on the sandisk site including re-loading the U3 software.

Tim

----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Schaefer <js at jasonschaefer.com>
To: NMGLUG.org mailing list <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2007 2:42:37 PM
Subject: [nmglug] ativa flash drive with u3 and iso9660 partition.. arrgg


Hi

I bought a cheap 1 gb ativa flash drive a few weeks ago. It has this u3 
software installed into a read only cdrom iso9660 partition. It is 
really annoying to have it automount this cdrom partition everytime. I 
imagine its even more annoying in MS Windows, as it actually installs 
itself on the system without even asking. My question is, how can I 
completely obliterate everything on this drive and re-partition? I can't 
use fdisk as its detected as a cdrom.

/dev/sda1 - fat16, 1gb partition
/dev/scd0 - iso9660 cdrom 3.8mb partition

THANKS!
Jason


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