Re: How to eliminate U3 System Stuff from SanDisk ruzer thumb drive

In article <fmoore-EF5D3E.11205207072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Fred Moore <fmoore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> While I agree with you in principle, the underlying point is that the 
> thumb drives AES (I think he was the OP) was talking about are 
> attractive because they are REALLY, REALLY cheap generics. So if you 
> want to save the money in order to have a tem****ary transfer medium that

> you don't care if it gets lost, you put up with the U3 stuff. It can 
> only be removed by running the uninstaller from a D'Ohs machine. BTW, 
> for those that don't know, these drives are perfectly useable without 
> clearing the U3 software. You can reformat most of the capacity as 
> read/write HFS+. It's just that you can't get rid of the small partition

> containing the security software, so every time you mount the drive two 
> partitions will show up, mostly a cosmetic or aesthetic issue.

I was the OP, and that's an exactly correct statement of my motivation 
for making the query ­­ and also, apparently (and unfortunately) a 
correct statement of the answer to my query.