Sandisk USB stick with U3

[Mick M.]

Hello;
  I had a friend come over with a USB stick.
I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the stick.

I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it.
I went through this last year and used a Windows program to remove the U3 stuff and reformat it.

Is there any way to do this in Linux?

I remember I used fdisk to make it ext2, and formatted it.
It still would not work.

Mick M.

Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first.

#  find / -name "*your base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;