Re: *REALLY* formatting a USB flash drive

From: .... (e56c3678_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:46:07 -0500

I have not run inot (or heard of) this problem before. What make/model is
your USB flash drive? (All of mine have been recognized as a 256MB
removable hard drive.)

Have you tried looking at it via XP's Disk management console, to see if it
might be partitioned at the hardware level? It may have come from the
factory like that to solve a backward compatibility issue. in which case you
might be able to re-partition and re-format.

Hope this helps.
J

"trmatthe" <trmatthe@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1104682684.560181.151590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hi. I have a standard 256 MB USB2 flash drive. It presents itself to
> Windows XP and Linux as two parts - a floppy drive and a mass storage
> device of around 240 MB.
>
> What I would like to do is remove the floppy emulation section and
> partition it as a single partition.
>
> Under linux I have been able to modify the partition table for the mass
> storage component (fdisk on /dev/sdb) , but not the floppy emulation.
> Does anybody have any suggestions ?
>
> thanks,
> Tim
>

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