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On 03/14/2010 03:30 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick M. <span
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello;<br>
I had a friend come over with a USB stick.<br>
I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the
stick.<br>
<br>
I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it.<br>
I went through this last year and used a Windows program to remove the
U3 stuff and reformat it.<br>
<br>
Is there any way to do this in Linux?<br>
<br>
I remember I used fdisk to make it ext2, and formatted it.<br>
It still would not work.<br>
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You could use parted <device>, where <device> is probably
/dev/sdb<br>
<br>
Remove all the partitions, then re-create one as FAT32 if you want to
be able<br>
to read it with a windows system, otherwise ext2.<br>
<br>
I just did this with a USB flashdrive that had an extra software
partition.<br>
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-- <br>
Dale Dellutri<br>
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<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Paolo<br>
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