SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

>At least on my SanDisk Cruzer, that was relatively harmless on Linux. On 
>Windows, these lines suggest that any time you put the drive in it 
>launches the horrible U3 system and starts messing with your files. 
>Fortunately, there is a solution. You can download the U3 removal tool 
>from the sandisk web site and run it (Windows only, I'm afraid, but I 
>managed to get it to work from Virtual box by connecting the DOK 
>directly to the windows machine). Once removed, Linux starts treating 
>the device as a normal Disk on Key as well. Much recommended.

Can you just mount the raw device and reformat it?

Geoff.

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