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

[Jason Schaefer]

I can delete and recreate the partition and filesystem for the /dev/sd 
partition but not for the /dev/sc. Even dd can't write over sc (ro 
partition). I did delete the mbr, but that wouldn't help anyways, since 
the partition is still in tact. Any other ideas?



Tim Emerick wrote:
> 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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