I bought a U3 drive once, and ran their utility to remove all the U3
bits from it.

Luckily "autorun" is disabled on my computer, so when I first inserted
it, nothing installed.

Now when I buy a thumb drive, I read the package carefully enough to
make sure I never get another one with U3.

Cheerful regards,

Bob


Dr Skip wrote:
> I'm not sticking my U3 drive in again after all I did to remove it, but I would 
> guess that the INF file present on it writes that info to the registry through 
> the usual mechanisms. It shows up as a USB CD device. A look at properties when 
> connected shows it to be a CD.
> 
> If I remember, since most USB drives translate to FAT numbering, etc., it 
> shouldn't be too difficult to do the same but set the bits for CDFS (I think 
> that's the right acronym) and send data out in that order.
> 
> It might be useful to put it in a Linux box to probe it. I think there are 
> tools for that there...
> 
> 
> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Peter van Hoof wrote:
>>
>>
>> You'd think so, wouldn't you?  So, I registered my  
>> "company" (actually, better than average: "Hobbyist", "student", and  
>> "shareware developer" were among choices provided for "organization  
>> type") and downloaded the 1.6MB, 130+page document.  It doesn't once  
>> mention "CD" (except as "change directory") or ISO, nor did a quick  
>> scan provide ANY insightful paragraph on "how this is accomplished."
>>
>> BillW
>>
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