8Gb USB PEN DRIVE in Argos

dolittle

no sorry my mistake

ralphie

kaiser soza wrote: »

Argos have a 8gb usb pen drive(Maxell) for €10 at the moment,I know the store in Swords Pavillion have 4 left in stock,Bargain compared to maplins and Currys who charge €45 upwards.

Reserved two from Childers Road,picked them up this evening.Thanks.

Basq

Anyone have any luck getting rid of the second "SECURE" partition?

No uninstaller with it, and can't delete the partition.

Richard Dower

I hate these drives with separate partitions...shirley it can be formatted?

losttheplot

basquille wrote: »

Anyone have any luck getting rid of the second "SECURE" partition?

No uninstaller with it, and can't delete the partition.

This tool might work. I have found it to be quite good

SwissKnife

http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

Basq

Richard Dower wrote: »

I hate these drives with separate partitions...shirley it can be formatted?

95% of the time it allows you to either:

a) delete the partition in Disk Management
b) uninstall it using a tool (typically provided on the USB drive).

..... oh, and don't call me Shirley!

losttheplot wrote: »

This tool might work. I have found it to be quite good

SwissKnife

http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

No luck even with that I'm afraid.. they show up as two seperate drives and can only choose to format either of them!

Oracle

Basquille, any Linux Live CD is your friend. Insert Live CD, boot up, plug in, and format!

Rhodney

secure partition?
mine is showing as a single drive with 7.52 GB capacity

, thanks to the op, was able to get 2 yesterday

MunsterCycling

Here is the utility that came with mine, which was all one unencrypted parition, but seeing as this one is for my keyring it got changed to 512 mb open partition and the rest secure.

Gimme a moment while I find a place to share this from...

http://rapidshare.com/files/227929301/UFD_Utility_V3210_User-Manual_EN.zip.html

If you can't download this PM me and I'll mail it to you, link above will only work first 10 times


MC

Basq

Oracle wrote: »

Basquille, any Linux Live CD is your friend. Insert Live CD, boot up, plug in, and format!

Tried GNOME Partition Editor (parted) on Ubuntu.. even that wouldn't do it!

Rhodney wrote: »

secure partition?
mine is showing as a single drive with 7.52 GB capacity

, thanks to the op, was able to get 2 yesterday

Not me.. I've got a G: (PUBLIC label) and H: (SECURE label).

MunsterCycling wrote: »

If you can't download this PM me and I'll mail it to you, link above will only work first 10 times

MC

Cheers MC but..



Eh?!

Doesn't do anything after that.

MunsterCycling

Oh... I never had that issue, I presume its plugged in when you run that utility?

It was installed on mine.

Sounds like you might have got a dud, let me find my one and I'll do a few tests.

MC

Edit: Yup you must of run that without the stick plugged in as I just tested it now without it

Basq

MunsterCycling wrote: »

Oh... I never had that issue, I presume its plugged in when you run that utility?

It was installed on mine.

Sounds like you might have got a dud, let me find my one and I'll do a few tests.

MC

Nah.. I'd say this happened when I was messing about with it on the GNOME Partition Editor.

I formatted it as HFS hoping it wouldn't pop up the partition anymore.. it's not popping up but it is still showing as another partition.

No worries.. I'll live with it!`

MunsterCycling

That utility can format the whole stick for you.

MC

Basq

Yeah, I re-formatted (using Windows) the primary partition on the disk (7.64GB) as FAT32 (which is what it originally was) and formatted the security partition on the disk (2MB) as FAT, which is what it originally was.

But UFDUtility.exe still won't recognise it (gives the same error as indicated above).

There is an icon in the system tray for it but it does nothing!

Found plenty of results in Google dealing with the same problem... but if only I could find one in English!