On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:58:44 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> [quoted text muted] > > I have s Sandisk Cruzer Micro too, and I believe the culprit is U3 > (basically a proprietary version of Portable Apps). U3 has delusions of > grandeur, including claiming it is a CD-ROM device. The solution I > chose was to completely reformat the disk (of course copy all data off > first) with parted. > > Can you reply with the output from: > > # parted /dev/sdb print > > Matt Flaschen [root@mbrc15 ~]# ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb [root@mbrc15 ~]# parted /dev/sdb print Error: Error opening /dev/sdb: No medium found Retry/Cancel? c [root@mbrc15 ~]# Not very informative, is it? It is a SanDisk Cruzer 1G, and works just file on the WinXp partition of the same machine. Mike.