repartitioning USB Storage and U3

[Chris Peterman]

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:11:33 -0500
C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:30, William Stephens wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just got a new USB Flash drive and has this U3 junk on it.
> >
> > When I plug it in on my wife's win2k laptop it loads up fine and
> > starts this annoying U3 launchpad thing.
> >
> > On my breezy it loads up fine and mounts a cdrom device at the same
> > time. I'm guessing this is the U3 crap annoying me again.
> >
> > So in order to rid myself of this problem I ran cfdisk and deleted
> > all the partition i saw and wrote a new one and then formatted it
> > with mkfs. I got rid of some nonessential files on the drive, yet
> > U3 crap is still there.
> >
> > I'm a linux newbie and not too familiar with cfdisk or mkfs.
> > Everything is working fine, I just need help getting rid of this
> > 30MB worth of crap I can't seem to find.
> >
> > William S.
> Just a guess: have you used 'fdisk -l <dev>' to see if there are more
> than one partitions on that flash drive??

A really good partitioning program for "beginners" is GParted. If you
have used Partition Magic on XP, then you will love GParted. Anyway,
I'd just use GParted (or QtParted for KDE users) and completely
reformat the thing in FAT32. Of course back everything up first :D

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~ Chris "Kyral" Peterman
Computer Science Undergraduate
Clarkson University
Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation
Ubuntu Member
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