Dr Laurie Miles wrote:
> I've just come across a drug rep donated USB memory stick in a fetching
> rubberised green colour. Given the hammering my kids give these things at
> school, I thought I'd donate it to one of them. However, it has a small
> partition which WinXP sees as a CD-ROM drive, and I can find no way in WinXP to
> wipe this partition and create one large partition on the drive - it basically
> needs a low level partition in the way you used to be able to do this with ATA &
> SCSI drives. I don't have a Linux machine - anyone know of a way to do a
> destructive format of one of these devices from within Windows?
>
> Laurie Miles
> PS It also has an autorun.inf file written incorrectly, and keeps crashing the
> presentation it is supposed to run, then repeatedly restarts. It completely
> froze the first PC I put it in - not a good advert...
>
I know you might be resistant, but you could do it from a bootable linux cd.
Ubuntu is my favourite right now.
Download the disc image - burn it - check bios will boot from CD before
hard disk - boot.
Can probably point you to the rest you need if you want to go this root.
Hey.....you might even install linux onto the key afterwards ;-)
Cheers
Jel
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