Comments on: Keep far far away from all U3 enabled flash drives. http://coreygo.com/index.php/2006/02/21/keep-far-far-away-from-all-u3-enabled-flash-drives/ thoughts of the convoluted Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:07:37 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Corey Gouker http://coreygo.com/index.php/2006/02/21/keep-far-far-away-from-all-u3-enabled-flash-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Corey Gouker Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:50:05 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2006/02/21/KeepFarFarAwayFromAllU3EnabledFlashDrives.aspx#comment-111 Thanks for the wonderful comment. 1. It was the right hardware. 2. It was on sale for $50 at the time which was a steal. 3. I knew it had U3. I did figure it would be easily removed and not embedded in the device. 4. U3 is fine for those that want to use it but bad for those that want a nice clean storage device with nothing added. 5. And yes 1MB isn't 1000KB it's 1024KB. I'm fully aware of the way storage devices work and the way they're marked on the label and the way Windows will report the storage. 6. With the U3 removed and the device formatted correctly you're able to get an extra 12MB of space. 7. Finally if people were so happy with U3 why then have I had so many people come here and click through to find out how to remove it? Thanks for the wonderful comment.

1. It was the right hardware.

2. It was on sale for $50 at the time which was a steal.

3. I knew it had U3. I did figure it would be easily removed and not embedded in the device.

4. U3 is fine for those that want to use it but bad for those that want a nice clean storage device with nothing added.

5. And yes 1MB isn't 1000KB it's 1024KB. I'm fully aware of the way storage devices work and the way they're marked on the label and the way Windows will report the storage.

6. With the U3 removed and the device formatted correctly you're able to get an extra 12MB of space.

7. Finally if people were so happy with U3 why then have I had so many people come here and click through to find out how to remove it?

]]> By: Shucker http://coreygo.com/index.php/2006/02/21/keep-far-far-away-from-all-u3-enabled-flash-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Shucker Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:56:29 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2006/02/21/KeepFarFarAwayFromAllU3EnabledFlashDrives.aspx#comment-110 "At this point I only have one piece of advice. Look for the U3 logo on any flash drive you buy and avoid it. It's totally useless, you can't remove it from the drive and get whatever space it's taking up back. This 1GB SanDisk only has 973MB available after formatting with FAT32. Yuck." You rant and rave because you're not smart enough to buy the right hardware? Weak man, weak. Totally useless? You're a moron. U3 does what it says and does it well. Read the packaging. Every U3 package clearly outlines its functionality. If you knew anything about hard drives, flash drives, iPod, whatever, you'd also know that formatted drives are always less than what they are out of the box. If you're gonna bitch and whine and advise others to flee from U3, at least buy a frickin' clue before you make an ignorant post like this one. "At this point I only have one piece of advice. Look for the U3 logo on any flash drive you buy and avoid it. It's totally useless, you can't remove it from the drive and get whatever space it's taking up back. This 1GB SanDisk only has 973MB available after formatting with FAT32. Yuck."

You rant and rave because you're not smart enough to buy the right hardware? Weak man, weak. Totally useless? You're a moron. U3 does what it says and does it well. Read the packaging. Every U3 package clearly outlines its functionality. If you knew anything about hard drives, flash drives, iPod, whatever, you'd also know that formatted drives are always less than what they are out of the box.

If you're gonna bitch and whine and advise others to flee from U3, at least buy a frickin' clue before you make an ignorant post like this one.

]]> By: g http://coreygo.com/index.php/2006/02/21/keep-far-far-away-from-all-u3-enabled-flash-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-109 g Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:26:31 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2006/02/21/KeepFarFarAwayFromAllU3EnabledFlashDrives.aspx#comment-109 have you tried in the Device Manager panel to remove or disable it? hi, I had this thing happen to me with daemon tools, and this helped solve the problem: <a href="http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/showthread.php?t=2138" rel="nofollow">http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/showthread.php?t=...</a> have you tried in the Device Manager panel to remove or disable it?

hi, I had this thing happen to me with daemon tools, and this helped solve the problem:
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/showthread.php?t=…

]]> By: Marc Hernandez http://coreygo.com/index.php/2006/02/21/keep-far-far-away-from-all-u3-enabled-flash-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Marc Hernandez Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:04:16 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2006/02/21/KeepFarFarAwayFromAllU3EnabledFlashDrives.aspx#comment-108 I'm having the same exact problem. The wierd thing is, my roommate bought the same exact cruzer and when he plugged it into his machine he only had one partition, with some install file on it, and he simply deleted them. I'm going to try calling sandisk and see what i can find out. I’m having the same exact problem. The wierd thing is, my roommate bought the same exact cruzer and when he plugged it into his machine he only had one partition, with some install file on it, and he simply deleted them. I’m going to try calling sandisk and see what i can find out.

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