OT HW: Memorex Travel Drive U3

[AJLynn]

Kind of OT for this forum, but-

 

I just got one of these Memorex Travel Drives with U3 cause it was on sale, and it is seriously ticking me off. Any computer I stick it in autoruns this U3 software, with some random apps Memorex has chosen for me, and there doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of it. It resides on a partition that's listed as a CD-ROM with Autorun, that's read-only, and Windows doesn't seem to be able to erase the partition.

 

Anybody know these things and how to get rid of this insidious software? I don't want random crap being run on people's machines when I try to give them files.

[tcupp]

I would try another operating system if you have one handy... a mac might allow you to erase the partition, or a computer running Linux probably would. Also, I think you can right click a memory stick in "my computer" in xp and format.

 

Hope that helps...

[the.3dsmax.blogger]

To the Best of my Knowledge .. TTBOMK ..

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Such removable drives are sometimes divided into two partitions. one small , which is reconfigured to appear as a CDrom drive to the OS, so that it can autorun softwares. (because normal removable drives cannot autorun software on pluging in); the other one, larger being configured as the removable drive for data storage.

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I believe u can use any standard formatting tools like the disk management tools in the computer management section in the administrator tools in control panel in win2000/xp, to delete these partitions and re create a single data partition.

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hope this helps

regards

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ps :- BTW, I was not aware that U3 support is released.. is it ?

[AJLynn]

Disk Management was one of the first things I tried - the thing is set up so that even DM thinks it's a CD-ROM plus a USB drive, and isn't able to do anything to the CD-ROM. It's truly evil. I'm thinking it's somehow hardwired - maybe there are 2 USB devices in there, the flash drive and a ROM drive.

 

And yeah, it looks like this U3 thing works.

 

Oh well. I gave it to my uncle. Not enough hours in the day. Now I have a Cruzer Mini.