How to eliminate U3 System Stuff from SanDisk ruzer thumb drive

I frustrated over this when I got my first U3 disk. Then I went to the 
Sandisk site and found an application that totally reformats the drive 
AND permanently (possibly irreversibly) removes the U3 partition. I 
think it was called "launchpadremoval.exe", and (obviously) it needs to 
be run from Windows.

I have a Windows box sitting around, and was glad to find this use for 
it. Both of my U3 drives now work like any other thumb drive.

In article <siegman-DB2A83.08071904072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 AES <siegman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <1ijifau.1wdunv0s0e40yN%paul****hs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'tkosher.oink>,
>  paul****hs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'tkosher.oink (Paul ****hs) wrote:
> 
> > AES <siegman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a straightforward way to reformat a SanDick Cruzer 2 GB or
4GB
> > > USB thumb drive to make it into a totally vanilla external USB
volume
> > > that can be read and written to on either Macs or PCs? 
> > > 
> > > That is, totally eliminate all the "U3" or whatever 
> > > system stuff it is that shows up on a Mac or PC, including a
separate CD
> > > volume that has to be ejected separately
> > 
> > Not trying to be rude, but there was a thread a few months ago
covering
> > this in detail.
> 
> These gadgets seem to be on display racks everywhere these days, at very

> attractively low discount prices per GB compared to other thumb drives. 

> (Is this maybe because the additional "U3" stuff has turned out to be 
> unpopular even with PC users?)
> 
> I guess I'm still hoping that since this gadget presumably contains only

> a purely passive memory card, there must be some brute force way even on

> a Mac to use Disk Utility or ??? to totally erase the entire unit down 
> to bare or empty memory and reformat that memory . . .  or is the "U3" 
> stuff in some kind of separate chip that can't be erased?


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