On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 14:42, Robert C Wittig
<wittig.robert@
> I use fdisk.
>
> first I su to root, then I
>
> # /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc
>
> (for the third SCSI disk, in this example)
>
> Then, once I am in fdisk, I would use the instructions fdisk provides,
> to delete all partitions.
Hi Robert,
Check my reply out... you are absolutely correct, in about 99% of the
cases... heh...
The problem here is that SanDisk puts this weird locked partition on
their USB drives that shows up as U3. No amount of fdisking, cussing,
or even dd can get rid of that sucker (I spent almost two full days
trying to remove the damned thing). The only way to do it is to use a
windows utility from SanDisk that will remove the partition.
I have no idea exactly how they did it, but as I said, even scrubbing
the disk with 0s or random numbers using DD failed to remove that
partition.
It's a huge PITA, even if it only takes up 100 MB or so...
Oh for the days when they'd just put that stupid auto run crap in the
drives root instead of in some weird hidden partition...
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