On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:56:51 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > A question which appeared on fedora-list recently was how to remove U#W > from a USB drive. I did not see a resolution until the following web > link: > > http://www.u3.com/uninstall I've been trying to do that, and have a long thread going at http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewforum.php?id=1 called "How to wipe thumbdrives??" I've tried formatting under XP; under Gparted; under QTparted; and going as root to a mounted one and using rm & rmdir. *Some* of my thumbdrives now *seem* to be clear; and several do function as bootable media with other distros. Since those bootable drives are my chief current concern, I haven't been nearly so meticulous about tracking what I've done with which as I might; but i *think* I've picked up a joker in the deck. Afaict (and I mean what my .sig says), a given Fedora app may or may not always see this U3 foulness when looking at a given thumbdrive. Often Fedora will tell me a drive is empty, but show a pie chart with less than 100% available space -- and an open folder with ostensibly no contents. There is one post in that thread with a technique using dd; I haven't tried it yet, but probably will. In particular, I've two or three times downloaded that .exe and installed it under Wine. When launched, it asks me to insert a drive -- whether or not I already have -- and then does nothing, and offers nothing. If I could find non SanDisk Cruzer thumbdrives here, I'd never buy another. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
