Sir Topham Hatt Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I have a USB stick that I found but when I plug it in, a new CD drive appears, like it's an external drive. It's part of the USB Stick but a format, even deleting the volume in Acronis Disk Director won't format the stick completely and make a brand new volume of the true space. There's some sort of install file on there. Is there anything I can do to force it to blank over the whole lot or is it split forever? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitmz Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 try gparted.. it may work, i would give it a try (its linux based, of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulligan2k Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I have a USB stick that I found but when I plug it in, a new CD drive appears, like it's an external drive. It's part of the USB Stick but a format, even deleting the volume in Acronis Disk Director won't format the stick completely and make a brand new volume of the true space. There's some sort of install file on there. Is there anything I can do to force it to blank over the whole lot or is it split forever? Thanks got another computer/laptop you can test the usb stick on to see if you get the same problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted November 26, 2014 Veteran Share Posted November 26, 2014 I hate when vendors do stuff like that with USB sticks... I had a few from VeriSign that were set up like CD Drives when mounted... could never partition them back even though they where 1GB sticks, they had a 100MB CD when mounted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted November 26, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted November 26, 2014 this isn't a U3 usb stick is it? I know the U3 software created a little virtual cd drive to emulate encryption if it is you should be able to use the Launch Pad removal tool from here http://u3.sandisk.com/ to remove that cd partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted November 26, 2014 MVC Share Posted November 26, 2014 ^ yeah that would be my guess its U3.. Here is another tool with working with U3 sticks. http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/ Yes can remove it, replace it with something you might actually use, resize it, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Topham Hatt Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 It just says the size on it, but the CD drive is a U3. At 512Mb it's not really worth it but good to know for the future and will try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted November 28, 2014 MVC Share Posted November 28, 2014 "I have a USB stick that I found but when I plug it in, a new CD drive appears" I really didn't catch this part about found before, where exactly did you find it? A hackers trick is to sometimes leave stuff like this outside companies (parking lot) and hoping members of the company plug them in, and run/open stuff on it or auto play is enabled, etc. Or did you find it in your draw, and you had just forgot you had it, that sort of thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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