Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3

Some USB drives have partitions full of Windows software hardwired into the drive firmware. Not just Flash drives - there are rotating USB drives that "provide" such partitions. One that I looked at had the installer for a backup utility. I expect that it would be impossible to remove those part

Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3

> From: Suvayu Ali > Subject: Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3 > On 14/03/10 11:37 AM, Mick M. wrote: > > Hello; > >    I had a friend come over with a USB > stick. > > I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could > not write to the stick. > > >

Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3

On 14/03/10 11:37 AM, Mick M. wrote: > Hello; >I had a friend come over with a USB stick. > I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the stick. > > I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it. > I went through this last year and used a Windows progr

Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3

On 03/14/2010 03:30 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick M. > wrote: Hello; I had a friend come over with a USB stick. I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the stick. I realized it was a Sandi

Re: Sandisk USB stick with U3

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick M. wrote: > Hello; > I had a friend come over with a USB stick. > I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the > stick. > > I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it. > I went through this last year and used a

Sandisk USB stick with U3

Hello; I had a friend come over with a USB stick. I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the stick. I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it. I went through this last year and used a Windows program to remove the U3 stuff and reformat it. Is t