CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

[Mort Arditti]

RE: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Tony & other similar victims,

Your experience is identical to mine. You too have been fleeced by the
corrupt business practices of the flash manufacturer. Since the situation is
so similar to mine, I am going to mention the company, it is SanDisk and the
drive is U3 type. The minor difference between us is that in my case it is a
friend’s drive and I am handling this situation.
Even though the small partition is a small fraction of the total, this is
fraud! The dishonest manufacturer does not deliver the memory capacity you
paid for.

My approach was to write a very nasty letter to the company’s CEO (see below
for the name and address) and accused them for fraud and demanded corrective
action. Within a few days, one of their people contacted me and informed
that I can not repartition the drive. The scheme they use is to make the
small partition appear as a CD, file system is CDFS. Attempting to
re-partition may render the entire drive – dead. I informed them that unless
the problem is corrected, I will publicize it by writing to magazines,
calling radio talk shows (computer related) etc. “As the saying the pen is
mightier than the sword”. I lieu of a pen I used a word processor and fought
them back. THEY ARE CROOKS!
The bottom line is that they sent me a replacement drive, one partition and
no crap on it. Very likely SanDisk is paid to embed the promotional crap on
the drive, while the users are cheated by not having the memory capacity they
paid for. I strongly urge every VICTIM to write to the company’s CEO. If
anyone would like to have a copy of my letter, I would be glad to email it.
It is Microsoft Word format. These crooks must be made aware that they must
practice HONEST marketing. There is strength in numbers.

The CEO and address: Mr. Eli Harari, CEO
SanDisk Corporation
601 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, Ca. 95035

If you would like a copy of my letter, please contact me at:
marditti60@hotmail.com

I hope this helps

Mort


"Tony Sperling" wrote:

> I recently bought one of these 4GB USB Flash Drives - it shows as a CD in my
> filemanager. It had loads of quite useless 'utilities' on it that I know I
> will never have any need for. I reformated the FAT32 drive as NTFS and
> removed the remaining CDFS partition, but when I boot the next morning that
> partition is automatically re-installed. Anybody know if I can delete such a
> partition? Partition Manager does not allow it - alternatively, can I delete
> it or take measures to have it not be re-installed like this?
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
>
>

 

[Bill]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Got the same thing on a 320GB Acomdata USB hard drive. The CDFS partition
is 120MB and contains a worthless backup utility and other crap. It was
advertised as such (Hybrid Drive) so I guess I have no recourse. Still, I
don't like it and wish I could remove the CDFS partition, but a readme on
the partition states it is impossible.

BullDawg

"Mort Arditti" <Mort Arditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1EF26880-C0B5-4B74-83E8-B3D0C2EB1161@microsoft.com...
> Tony & other similar victims,
>
> Your experience is identical to mine. You too have been fleeced by the
> corrupt business practices of the flash manufacturer. Since the situation
> is
> so similar to mine, I am going to mention the company, it is SanDisk and
> the
> drive is U3 type. The minor difference between us is that in my case it
> is a
> friend¡¯s drive and I am handling this situation.
> Even though the small partition is a small fraction of the total, this is
> fraud! The dishonest manufacturer does not deliver the memory capacity
> you
> paid for.
>
> My approach was to write a very nasty letter to the company¡¯s CEO (see
> below
> for the name and address) and accused them for fraud and demanded
> corrective
> action. Within a few days, one of their people contacted me and informed
> that I can not repartition the drive. The scheme they use is to make the
> small partition appear as a CD, file system is CDFS. Attempting to
> re-partition may render the entire drive ? dead. I informed them that
> unless
> the problem is corrected, I will publicize it by writing to magazines,
> calling radio talk shows (computer related) etc. ¡°As the saying the pen
> is
> mightier than the sword¡±. I lieu of a pen I used a word processor and
> fought
> them back. THEY ARE CROOKS!
> The bottom line is that they sent me a replacement drive, one partition
> and
> no crap on it. Very likely SanDisk is paid to embed the promotional crap
> on
> the drive, while the users are cheated by not having the memory capacity
> they
> paid for. I strongly urge every VICTIM to write to the company¡¯s CEO.
> If
> anyone would like to have a copy of my letter, I would be glad to email
> it.
> It is Microsoft Word format. These crooks must be made aware that they
> must
> practice HONEST marketing. There is strength in numbers.
>
> The CEO and address: Mr. Eli Harari, CEO
> SanDisk Corporation
> 601 McCarthy Blvd
> Milpitas, Ca. 95035
>
> If you would like a copy of my letter, please contact me at:
> marditti60@hotmail.com
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Mort
>
>
> "Tony Sperling" wrote:
>
>> I recently bought one of these 4GB USB Flash Drives - it shows as a CD in
>> my
>> filemanager. It had loads of quite useless 'utilities' on it that I know
>> I
>> will never have any need for. I reformated the FAT32 drive as NTFS and
>> removed the remaining CDFS partition, but when I boot the next morning
>> that
>> partition is automatically re-installed. Anybody know if I can delete
>> such a
>> partition? Partition Manager does not allow it - alternatively, can I
>> delete
>> it or take measures to have it not be re-installed like this?
>>
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
>>
>>
>>

 

[Tony Sperling]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Thanks, Mort!

I have to confess, initially I was tormented by much the same thoughts, but
the issue - as you'll see if you read the thread through - is easily solved,
and much to the companies credit, they actually have it openly listed and
available on their website!

What I cannot understand is that a company that foresees difficulties and
employs work-arounds for solving those, does not put the utility on to that
very CDFS partition with a README instead of hiding it on their site and not
telling anybody about it?

I usually do not log on to those sites for registration or whatever, so
there is little chance that I would ever have found this without the kind
intervention of Robert McMillan. In the future, whenever I experience
'wrinkles' that need to be ironed out - I am quite sure that I will at least
go there and have a look. Alternatively, this is usually also a good spot
from where to contact Product Support by e-mail, which will often also give
you a quick solution!

To Bill - 'Hybrid Drive, huh'? This should teach us to analyze the language
of the add's very closely in the future. I cannot say if your 'Acomdata'
would benefit from the same kind of treatment, but I think there's a very
good possibility that there could be something for this purpose on the
company site - or, as I said: contact Support by e-mail and ask them a
reasonably nicely composed question. I suppose what the README is telling
you is that you cannot remove it yourself (as we have found out) by ordinary
intervention - but if SanDisk can do it, so can they and there can be no
reason for them to not provide the assistance. Not unless their business is
to aggravate! If it is, try the SanDisk utility, it apparently reformats
everything as FAT 32 - which could be a problem with your 320GB, after which
you should be able to reformat it again as NTFS if you want.

Good Luck!


Tony. . .

 

[Mort Arditti]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Bill,

It appears that that these dishonest people get paid to imbed crap on their
drives. It occupies some of the capacity and the user is short changed.
They make the drive ‘look like’ a CD. You may try and see if Acomodata has
some utility the clear their trash. After my posting, I searched and found
the U3 site. SanDisk U3 drive use the U3 technology to imbed their trash on
the flash drive. The U3 site did have a utility to clean up the drive.

The interesting part is that the SanDisk person was not aware of any utility
to clear up the drive. Looks like they are all messed up.

Going back to the Acomodata hard drive. If they do not have a utility, here
is an old fashioned idea. Remove the drive from the case. If the Hard disk
is PATA drive, use an older computer with a floppy drive. Get hold of an
older WIN ME boot floppy disk. Connect the hard drive as a master drive in
the old computer, set the bios to boot from the floppy. Boot the computer
and let it boot without CD support. At the A: prompt, select FDISK which is
the hard drive utility. In this utility it will give you the option to
delete partitions. Note that you will have the option to delete DOS and none
DOS partitions. Possibly, here you will be able to delete the unwanted
partition. Once you do this follow the instruction. It may help if you can
get hold of an old DOS 6.2 book.

Once you repartition the drive, go back to the A: prompt and format the hard
drive. It will be FAT 32. Once you have that and if you use the drive in
WINDOWS XP, you can convert to NTFS. I hope this helps

Good luck.

Mort


"Bill" wrote:

> Got the same thing on a 320GB Acomdata USB hard drive. The CDFS partition
> is 120MB and contains a worthless backup utility and other crap. It was
> advertised as such (Hybrid Drive) so I guess I have no recourse. Still, I
> don't like it and wish I could remove the CDFS partition, but a readme on
> the partition states it is impossible.
>
> BullDawg
>
> "Mort Arditti" <Mort Arditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1EF26880-C0B5-4B74-83E8-B3D0C2EB1161@microsoft.com...
> > Tony & other similar victims,
> >
> > Your experience is identical to mine. You too have been fleeced by the
> > corrupt business practices of the flash manufacturer. Since the situation
> > is
> > so similar to mine, I am going to mention the company, it is SanDisk and
> > the
> > drive is U3 type. The minor difference between us is that in my case it
> > is a
> > friend¡¯s drive and I am handling this situation.
> > Even though the small partition is a small fraction of the total, this is
> > fraud! The dishonest manufacturer does not deliver the memory capacity
> > you
> > paid for.
> >
> > My approach was to write a very nasty letter to the company¡¯s CEO (see
> > below
> > for the name and address) and accused them for fraud and demanded
> > corrective
> > action. Within a few days, one of their people contacted me and informed
> > that I can not repartition the drive. The scheme they use is to make the
> > small partition appear as a CD, file system is CDFS. Attempting to
> > re-partition may render the entire drive ? dead. I informed them that
> > unless
> > the problem is corrected, I will publicize it by writing to magazines,
> > calling radio talk shows (computer related) etc. ¡°As the saying the pen
> > is
> > mightier than the sword¡±. I lieu of a pen I used a word processor and
> > fought
> > them back. THEY ARE CROOKS!
> > The bottom line is that they sent me a replacement drive, one partition
> > and
> > no crap on it. Very likely SanDisk is paid to embed the promotional crap
> > on
> > the drive, while the users are cheated by not having the memory capacity
> > they
> > paid for. I strongly urge every VICTIM to write to the company¡¯s CEO.
> > If
> > anyone would like to have a copy of my letter, I would be glad to email
> > it.
> > It is Microsoft Word format. These crooks must be made aware that they
> > must
> > practice HONEST marketing. There is strength in numbers.
> >
> > The CEO and address: Mr. Eli Harari, CEO
> > SanDisk Corporation
> > 601 McCarthy Blvd
> > Milpitas, Ca. 95035
> >
> > If you would like a copy of my letter, please contact me at:
> > marditti60@hotmail.com
> >
> > I hope this helps
> >
> > Mort
> >
> >
> > "Tony Sperling" wrote:
> >
> >> I recently bought one of these 4GB USB Flash Drives - it shows as a CD in
> >> my
> >> filemanager. It had loads of quite useless 'utilities' on it that I know
> >> I
> >> will never have any need for. I reformated the FAT32 drive as NTFS and
> >> removed the remaining CDFS partition, but when I boot the next morning
> >> that
> >> partition is automatically re-installed. Anybody know if I can delete
> >> such a
> >> partition? Partition Manager does not allow it - alternatively, can I
> >> delete
> >> it or take measures to have it not be re-installed like this?
> >>
> >>
> >> Tony. . .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

 

[Mort Arditti]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Tony,

My issue with SanDisk is that they use deceptive promotion.
They sell a 4 GB flash drive and deprive the user from some of the total
capacity.
When I first tried to use their ‘removal’ download it did not work. Tech
support was mostly Tech NO support. It took two days from them to reply and
they did not suggest going their site for a removal tool. When I wrote to
the CEO, one of his ‘lieutenants’ send me an email and offered to send a CD
with proper file to fix the problem. When I replied if it will also delete
the unwanted small U3 partition, at first it was yes and the next email it
was no and he provided a link to fix the problem. The link did not work. At
that point he suggested that the partition can only be removed by SanDisk.
He apologized and sent me another drive (I should receive it within a few
days).
Now it became a challenge for me. I searched for U3 and came across the U3
site. They had the proper tool to delete the partition which did work.
Just for fun, I went to store and looked at the SanDisk 4GB, U3 flash drive.
Next to the 4 GB, there was tiny asterisk. On the back of the package, in
very small print there was some text about the embedded crap. Their whole
approach is deceptive and removal difficult. Very likely, it is part of
their contractual agreement with the vendors who pay to install junk on the
drive.
My anger is about their deceptive marketing and lousy, horrible SanDisk
support. Possibly, part of the difficulty in removing the trash is also part
of their agreement with junk trash providers.

Mort



"Tony Sperling" wrote:

> Thanks, Mort!
>
> I have to confess, initially I was tormented by much the same thoughts, but
> the issue - as you'll see if you read the thread through - is easily solved,
> and much to the companies credit, they actually have it openly listed and
> available on their website!
>
> What I cannot understand is that a company that foresees difficulties and
> employs work-arounds for solving those, does not put the utility on to that
> very CDFS partition with a README instead of hiding it on their site and not
> telling anybody about it?
>
> I usually do not log on to those sites for registration or whatever, so
> there is little chance that I would ever have found this without the kind
> intervention of Robert McMillan. In the future, whenever I experience
> 'wrinkles' that need to be ironed out - I am quite sure that I will at least
> go there and have a look. Alternatively, this is usually also a good spot
> from where to contact Product Support by e-mail, which will often also give
> you a quick solution!
>
> To Bill - 'Hybrid Drive, huh'? This should teach us to analyze the language
> of the add's very closely in the future. I cannot say if your 'Acomdata'
> would benefit from the same kind of treatment, but I think there's a very
> good possibility that there could be something for this purpose on the
> company site - or, as I said: contact Support by e-mail and ask them a
> reasonably nicely composed question. I suppose what the README is telling
> you is that you cannot remove it yourself (as we have found out) by ordinary
> intervention - but if SanDisk can do it, so can they and there can be no
> reason for them to not provide the assistance. Not unless their business is
> to aggravate! If it is, try the SanDisk utility, it apparently reformats
> everything as FAT 32 - which could be a problem with your 320GB, after which
> you should be able to reformat it again as NTFS if you want.
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
>
>

 

[Bill]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Well, I did a little searching and found a utility from OnTrack that removed
the CDFS partition. It completely removed all partitions and left me with
one large unformatted partition. I got it from this link

http://web.mac.com/aponteluis/LuisA...29_Removing_Acomdata_HybridDrive_CD_PART.html

The author states he has permission from Acomdata to redistribute the file,
but since it is an OnTrack program, I'm not so sure. Anyway, it works with
the instructions given. One word of caution: Backup all data first as it
completely wipes the drive. I ran the file through all my
virus/trojan/spyware scanners and it came up clean, but I would check it
first if you intend to use it.

BullDawg

"Mort Arditti" <MortArditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9997FCD-1DC2-4FD8-BA26-9D51FB0B5110@microsoft.com...
> Bill,
>
> It appears that that these dishonest people get paid to imbed crap on
> their
> drives. It occupies some of the capacity and the user is short changed.
> They make the drive ¡®look like¡¯ a CD. You may try and see if Acomodata
> has
> some utility the clear their trash. After my posting, I searched and
> found
> the U3 site. SanDisk U3 drive use the U3 technology to imbed their trash
> on
> the flash drive. The U3 site did have a utility to clean up the drive.
>
> The interesting part is that the SanDisk person was not aware of any
> utility
> to clear up the drive. Looks like they are all messed up.
>
> Going back to the Acomodata hard drive. If they do not have a utility,
> here
> is an old fashioned idea. Remove the drive from the case. If the Hard
> disk
> is PATA drive, use an older computer with a floppy drive. Get hold of an
> older WIN ME boot floppy disk. Connect the hard drive as a master drive
> in
> the old computer, set the bios to boot from the floppy. Boot the computer
> and let it boot without CD support. At the A: prompt, select FDISK which
> is
> the hard drive utility. In this utility it will give you the option to
> delete partitions. Note that you will have the option to delete DOS and
> none
> DOS partitions. Possibly, here you will be able to delete the unwanted
> partition. Once you do this follow the instruction. It may help if you
> can
> get hold of an old DOS 6.2 book.
>
> Once you repartition the drive, go back to the A: prompt and format the
> hard
> drive. It will be FAT 32. Once you have that and if you use the drive in
> WINDOWS XP, you can convert to NTFS. I hope this helps
>
> Good luck.
>
> Mort
>
>
> "Bill" wrote:
>
>> Got the same thing on a 320GB Acomdata USB hard drive. The CDFS
>> partition
>> is 120MB and contains a worthless backup utility and other crap. It was
>> advertised as such (Hybrid Drive) so I guess I have no recourse. Still,
>> I
>> don't like it and wish I could remove the CDFS partition, but a readme on
>> the partition states it is impossible.
>>
>> BullDawg
>>
>> "Mort Arditti" <Mort Arditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1EF26880-C0B5-4B74-83E8-B3D0C2EB1161@microsoft.com...
>> > Tony & other similar victims,
>> >
>> > Your experience is identical to mine. You too have been fleeced by the
>> > corrupt business practices of the flash manufacturer. Since the
>> > situation
>> > is
>> > so similar to mine, I am going to mention the company, it is SanDisk
>> > and
>> > the
>> > drive is U3 type. The minor difference between us is that in my case
>> > it
>> > is a
>> > friend¢®?s drive and I am handling this situation.
>> > Even though the small partition is a small fraction of the total, this
>> > is
>> > fraud! The dishonest manufacturer does not deliver the memory capacity
>> > you
>> > paid for.
>> >
>> > My approach was to write a very nasty letter to the company¢®?s CEO
>> > (see
>> > below
>> > for the name and address) and accused them for fraud and demanded
>> > corrective
>> > action. Within a few days, one of their people contacted me and
>> > informed
>> > that I can not repartition the drive. The scheme they use is to make
>> > the
>> > small partition appear as a CD, file system is CDFS. Attempting to
>> > re-partition may render the entire drive ? dead. I informed them that
>> > unless
>> > the problem is corrected, I will publicize it by writing to magazines,
>> > calling radio talk shows (computer related) etc. ¢®¡ÆAs the saying the
>> > pen
>> > is
>> > mightier than the sword¢®¡¾. I lieu of a pen I used a word processor
>> > and
>> > fought
>> > them back. THEY ARE CROOKS!
>> > The bottom line is that they sent me a replacement drive, one partition
>> > and
>> > no crap on it. Very likely SanDisk is paid to embed the promotional
>> > crap
>> > on
>> > the drive, while the users are cheated by not having the memory
>> > capacity
>> > they
>> > paid for. I strongly urge every VICTIM to write to the company¢®?s
>> > CEO.
>> > If
>> > anyone would like to have a copy of my letter, I would be glad to email
>> > it.
>> > It is Microsoft Word format. These crooks must be made aware that they
>> > must
>> > practice HONEST marketing. There is strength in numbers.
>> >
>> > The CEO and address: Mr. Eli Harari, CEO
>> > SanDisk Corporation
>> > 601 McCarthy Blvd
>> > Milpitas, Ca. 95035
>> >
>> > If you would like a copy of my letter, please contact me at:
>> > marditti60@hotmail.com
>> >
>> > I hope this helps
>> >
>> > Mort
>> >
>> >
>> > "Tony Sperling" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I recently bought one of these 4GB USB Flash Drives - it shows as a CD
>> >> in
>> >> my
>> >> filemanager. It had loads of quite useless 'utilities' on it that I
>> >> know
>> >> I
>> >> will never have any need for. I reformated the FAT32 drive as NTFS and
>> >> removed the remaining CDFS partition, but when I boot the next morning
>> >> that
>> >> partition is automatically re-installed. Anybody know if I can delete
>> >> such a
>> >> partition? Partition Manager does not allow it - alternatively, can I
>> >> delete
>> >> it or take measures to have it not be re-installed like this?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Tony. . .
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

 

[Mort Arditti]

Re: CDFS partition on Flash drive. . .

Bill,

Congratulations for the end results.
I firmly believe that we must challenge these bastards who pre-load their
crap on their memory products. I have no doubt that they get paid for the
pre-loads while we consumers do not the entire capcity. I would not have a
problem with these pre-loads if the manufacturers provide specific
instructions and the necessary tools to remove them. However they do not,
probably because of some agrrement with who ever is paying.
Just consider your wasted time for this clean up.
This is the reason why I always write nasty letters to the President or
company CEO. They must be informed that their deeds are not acceptable.
Unfortunately, many people accept this abuse.
At this time, may I suggest that you partition your drive and use one of
your partitions to back up your entire C: drive, OS and all. I use a program
called Casper ver. 4. It is by fssdev (if you are interested I will find the
URL and send it to you). It works great and it is under $50. You boot from
the casper CD, copy C: (or whatever drive you want) to the backup. If your
C: gets corrupted, again I boot from the Casper CD, and restore. It save me
several time and the recovery takes
approximately one hour. beta having to install everything from scratch.
Regards,

Mort

"Bill" wrote:

> Well, I did a little searching and found a utility from OnTrack that removed
> the CDFS partition. It completely removed all partitions and left me with
> one large unformatted partition. I got it from this link
>
> http://web.mac.com/aponteluis/LuisA...29_Removing_Acomdata_HybridDrive_CD_PART.html
>
> The author states he has permission from Acomdata to redistribute the file,
> but since it is an OnTrack program, I'm not so sure. Anyway, it works with
> the instructions given. One word of caution: Backup all data first as it
> completely wipes the drive. I ran the file through all my
> virus/trojan/spyware scanners and it came up clean, but I would check it
> first if you intend to use it.
>
> BullDawg
>
> "Mort Arditti" <MortArditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E9997FCD-1DC2-4FD8-BA26-9D51FB0B5110@microsoft.com...
> > Bill,
> >
> > It appears that that these dishonest people get paid to imbed crap on
> > their
> > drives. It occupies some of the capacity and the user is short changed.
> > They make the drive ¡®look like¡¯ a CD. You may try and see if Acomodata
> > has
> > some utility the clear their trash. After my posting, I searched and
> > found
> > the U3 site. SanDisk U3 drive use the U3 technology to imbed their trash
> > on
> > the flash drive. The U3 site did have a utility to clean up the drive.
> >
> > The interesting part is that the SanDisk person was not aware of any
> > utility
> > to clear up the drive. Looks like they are all messed up.
> >
> > Going back to the Acomodata hard drive. If they do not have a utility,
> > here
> > is an old fashioned idea. Remove the drive from the case. If the Hard
> > disk
> > is PATA drive, use an older computer with a floppy drive. Get hold of an
> > older WIN ME boot floppy disk. Connect the hard drive as a master drive
> > in
> > the old computer, set the bios to boot from the floppy. Boot the computer
> > and let it boot without CD support. At the A: prompt, select FDISK which
> > is
> > the hard drive utility. In this utility it will give you the option to
> > delete partitions. Note that you will have the option to delete DOS and
> > none
> > DOS partitions. Possibly, here you will be able to delete the unwanted
> > partition. Once you do this follow the instruction. It may help if you
> > can
> > get hold of an old DOS 6.2 book.
> >
> > Once you repartition the drive, go back to the A: prompt and format the
> > hard
> > drive. It will be FAT 32. Once you have that and if you use the drive in
> > WINDOWS XP, you can convert to NTFS. I hope this helps
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Mort
> >
> >
> > "Bill" wrote:
> >
> >> Got the same thing on a 320GB Acomdata USB hard drive. The CDFS
> >> partition
> >> is 120MB and contains a worthless backup utility and other crap. It was
> >> advertised as such (Hybrid Drive) so I guess I have no recourse. Still,
> >> I
> >> don't like it and wish I could remove the CDFS partition, but a readme on
> >> the partition states it is impossible.
> >>
> >> BullDawg
> >>
> >> "Mort Arditti" <Mort Arditti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1EF26880-C0B5-4B74-83E8-B3D0C2EB1161@microsoft.com...
> >> > Tony & other similar victims,
> >> >
> >> > Your experience is identical to mine. You too have been fleeced by the
> >> > corrupt business practices of the flash manufacturer. Since the
> >> > situation
> >> > is
> >> > so similar to mine, I am going to mention the company, it is SanDisk
> >> > and
> >> > the
> >> > drive is U3 type. The minor difference between us is that in my case
> >> > it
> >> > is a
> >> > friend¢®?s drive and I am handling this situation.
> >> > Even though the small partition is a small fraction of the total, this
> >> > is
> >> > fraud! The dishonest manufacturer does not deliver the memory capacity
> >> > you
> >> > paid for.
> >> >
> >> > My approach was to write a very nasty letter to the company¢®?s CEO
> >> > (see
> >> > below
> >> > for the name and address) and accused them for fraud and demanded
> >> > corrective
> >> > action. Within a few days, one of their people contacted me and
> >> > informed
> >> > that I can not repartition the drive. The scheme they use is to make
> >> > the
> >> > small partition appear as a CD, file system is CDFS. Attempting to
> >> > re-partition may render the entire drive ? dead. I informed them that
> >> > unless
> >> > the problem is corrected, I will publicize it by writing to magazines,
> >> > calling radio talk shows (computer related) etc. ¢®¡ÆAs the saying the
> >> > pen
> >> > is
> >> > mightier than the sword¢®¡¾. I lieu of a pen I used a word processor
> >> > and
> >> > fought
> >> > them back. THEY ARE CROOKS!
> >> > The bottom line is that they sent me a replacement drive, one partition
> >> > and
> >> > no crap on it. Very likely SanDisk is paid to embed the promotional
> >> > crap
> >> > on
> >> > the drive, while the users are cheated by not having the memory
> >> > capacity
> >> > they
> >> > paid for. I strongly urge every VICTIM to write to the company¢®?s
> >> > CEO.
> >> > If
> >> > anyone would like to have a copy of my letter, I would be glad to email
> >> > it.
> >> > It is Microsoft Word format. These crooks must be made aware that they
> >> > must
> >> > practice HONEST marketing. There is strength in numbers.
> >> >
> >> > The CEO and address: Mr. Eli Harari, CEO
> >> > SanDisk Corporation
> >> > 601 McCarthy Blvd
> >> > Milpitas, Ca. 95035
> >> >
> >> > If you would like a copy of my letter, please contact me at:
> >> > marditti60@hotmail.com
> >> >
> >> > I hope this helps
> >> >
> >> > Mort
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Tony Sperling" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I recently bought one of these 4GB USB Flash Drives - it shows as a CD
> >> >> in
> >> >> my
> >> >> filemanager. It had loads of quite useless 'utilities' on it that I
> >> >> know
> >> >> I
> >> >> will never have any need for. I reformated the FAT32 drive as NTFS and
> >> >> removed the remaining CDFS partition, but when I boot the next morning
> >> >> that
> >> >> partition is automatically re-installed. Anybody know if I can delete
> >> >> such a
> >> >> partition? Partition Manager does not allow it - alternatively, can I
> >> >> delete
> >> >> it or take measures to have it not be re-installed like this?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Tony. . .
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

 

[Rok Lipnik]

... what utility exactly?

... what utility exactly?

BullDawg, thanks for the info, but unfortunately the address (http://web.mac.com/aponteluis/LuisA...29_Removing_Acomdata_HybridDrive_CD_PART.html
) is no longer valid (it gives me a 404 error). I was just wondering if you still remember what utility from OnTrack was used to accomplish the goal?