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jump drive won't format
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Hello all,
I bought a 2GB scandisk kruzer jump drive..
now this jump drive comes with software installed on it, so that when you plug it in for the first time, it mounts the jump drive, but also mounts what acts like a CD to install the software that comes with it (skype and a few other things)
How do you stop this? I went to disk utilites, "erased" it in fat 16, fat 32, OS X Extended and OS X journaled, and it still mounted the fake CD everytime I mount my disk drive.
So I went back to disk untilities and then erased it, but this time using the zero out feature.... which again didn't work.
So i've run out of ideas, there is also a 7 pass option, and like a 128 pass option, but I doubt either of those will work if the zeroing out didn't work, and it's not worth waiting for it to do that..
any suggestions?
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I have a similar drive - the issue is that the drive itself is partitioned, and the "CD" part of the drive cannot be touched with Disc Utility. the only part you are erasing is the area reserved for your data.
<sarcasm>Dear Sandisk: Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to eject two disks everytime I want to eject the drive. I will make sure that I always buy a disk with this "feature" in the future.... </sarcasm>
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dabigdawg - your sig is too large. It should be four lines, max.
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I just noticed the U3 partition did not mount on Leopard. That's good.
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