OT: U3 uninstall (USB thumb drives)

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 20:39:24 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I got a Sandisk micro cruzer as a gift and it came loaded with
> that U3 app stuff. So I wanted to get rid of it - difficult -
> even tried the 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb' which didn't
> get rid of it (I had to 'sudo mkfs /dev/sdb' to put a file system
> (ext2) back on it and then use qtparted to format it to fat32 - I
> did try 'sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb' but it pulled a face).
>
> Anyway I managed it in the end using U3's own uninstaller:
> http://www.u3.com/uninstall/
> You have to use a Windows box :-(
>
> So if anybody wants to get rid of that annoying stuff, I HTH

Had the same problem here, tried to use the U3 uninstaller on a 
Windows XP box - with no success. The device did not show in Linux 
Kubuntu 8.04.

My final solution was easier than expected:

Plugged the USB stick into a Windows boc, opened a "command prompt" 
and typed : "format F:" (where F was the designated drive as shown 
in "My Computer").

Voila: full functional USB Cruzer Micro 4 GB in Kubuntu Hardy.

HTH

Kaj Haulrich
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