usbkeys with U3 and their removal?

[Steven Stern]

Mike wrote:
> Does anyone have (or had) a usbkey which comes with U3 launchpad software?
>
> If so do you know if it is possible to remove the U3 stuff from the usbkey within
> Fedora alone.  I know that there is a Windows package that will do it but 
> if you have a machine with only F8 on it can one still get rid of the U3 stuff
> and then reformat the usbkey to put an ext3 file system on it?
>
> These U3 files in their peculiar CDROM-like partition seem to be un-removable
> even by root!
>
>   
I just got one at Circuit city yesterday. Put into a Windows machine and 
let it run the U3 menu.  Click on U3, then settings, then "uninstall".  
This is why one has friends with Windows machines.