Sandisk USB stick with U3

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 03/14/2010 03:30 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick M. <off_by_1 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:off_by_1 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>
> You could use parted <device>, where <device> is probably /dev/sdb
>
> Remove all the partitions, then re-create one as FAT32 if you want to 
> be able
> to read it with a windows system, otherwise ext2.
>
> I just did this with a USB flashdrive that had an extra software 
> partition.
>
> -- 
> Dale Dellutri

I have a sandisk USB stick with the U3 stuff on it and I have no problem 
reading and writing to the USB stick under F12.  I plug the USB stick 
in, it shows up on my desktop and up pops the file browser window and i 
can copy to/from it just fine.  I have the ntfs-3g and fuse packages 
installed and it all works.

Paolo
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