[ale] Thumb drive games

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Jan 14 01:21:06 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 01:11 -0500, aaron wrote:

> > Just like typing on this eeepc is. I had noticed on some web sites  
> > that
> > some thumb drives are not suitable for use as boot disks, but not a  
> > word
> > about why. I think I know at least one reason - some person/idiot  
> > added an
> > emulated cdrom drive to the San Disk micro cruzer 8 Gig I was  
> > using, which
> > got seriously in the way of making a bootable disk.
> >
> > Anybody else run into this kink of idiocy?
> 
> Using the Mac disk tools I was unable to remove the (stupid, useless)
> auto mount DVD partition on a San Disk USB key last week.  Didn't have
> a Linux system at hand, or I might have been able to just fdisk the
> thing.  So long as the CD or DVD partition is there it may be impossible
> to make the key bootable.

Fdisk won't do. You need a special Windows-only tool to remove this
annoyance. I think this is it.

http://u3uninstall.s3.amazonaws.com/U3Uninstall.exe

-Brian



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