About

Welcome to Panela, Matt Harrison's take on mostly Open Source, Linux, Python, innovation in those areas, other buzzwords and Dick Proenneke. It comes complete with the illustrations as needed. Note the opinions expressed here are merely my opinions and not the opinions of my employer.

about Matt

Calendar

««Nov 2009»»
SMTWTFS
1234567
8910
11
12
1314
151617
18
192021
22232425262728
2930

Mailing List

My RSS Feeds








Sandisk and U3 annoy me

posted 2008.11.13 Thu

I occasionally need to use windows for clients. And I often transfer files via thumb drives. I needed a new drive so I slipped of to Costco to buy a 3 pack. I copy the files from linux, and put the disk in the windows machine and it starts installing U3 technology. Argghhh. So I eject the drive, and put in back in Linux and wipe it (sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1). I plug it back into the windows machine and blue screen! According to this blog you can only uninstall using a sandisk or U3 tool. Normal windows uninstall processes don't apply.... Can I have that wasted hour of my life back?

tags:      

links: digg this    del.icio.us    reddit