Remooving U3 from USB drive.

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Apr 27 16:38:26 UTC 2009


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 14:28 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
>>
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> A question which appeared on fedora-list recently was how to remove U#W
>>> from a USB drive. I did not see a resolution until the following web
>>> link:
>>>
>>> http://www.u3.com/uninstall
>>>
>>>
>> I tried to find the answer to this some time ago also - the link you refer
>> to does provide a solution to removing the u3 stuff but not for linux as far
>> as I know - I never did find if there was a way to remove it in linux even
>> using the reformatting tools like parted and equivalents - the hidden
>> partition seems particularly stubborn against decontamination attempts in
>> linux!
>>
>> I only ever bought a single u3 drive and in the end resorted to using a
>> windows machine and the software you referred to in order to clean up the
>> drive.  After that it worked fine as a normal usb key.
>>
>> If you do find a linux removal solution I would be interested to hear about
>> it....
> You are right the above referenced procedure is a Windows solution. In a
> discussion about this yesterday some on suggested dd to wipe out the
> stick and then reformatting it. I don't know if this will work.
> --

I tried that.  Resorted to the Windows technique.  Even the U3 support 
groups couldn't give an answer.  It was two years ago.  I contacted 
Cruiser whom made the stick and they couldn't offer any support either.

On one stick.  The person that removed the U3 software had to remove 
some USB devices as they conflicted with the U3 software.  Also our 
administrator that cleared one stick was surprised how the software 
screwed up with his windows system.

The last stick that I purchased that had U3 on it didn't have anything 
listed on the package.


-- 
Robin Laing




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