Help with SanDisk Flash Drive

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nitrobass24

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Ok so tonight I impulse bought a 16gb USB flash drive.

Well it has this U3 Software shit on it that starts up everytime, and is annoying as shit.
Not to mention I want to use all of the drive.

Well I tried running the unistaller that is built in, doesnt work.
Tried the standalone uninstaller from the manufacturer, doesnt work.
Tried Diskpart Clean in the CMD window, didnt work.

Anyone got an idea on how I can get rid of this shit?
 
Weird, I've got a couple of Sandisk flash drives and I've never had any trouble getting the U3 off. I've always just used the built in uninstaller. I'm a fan of the Patriot XPorter drives now anyway. 32GB rocks.
 
When I do it, it either tells me that it can only do it on one u3 drive, please remove the extra drive.

OR

I get a message saying insert a compatible drive.
 
Im gonna go try it on a linux machine, ill let you know what happens.
 
I had a similar problem, and I just formatted the flash drive using XP's Disc Management software and somehow that solve this problem.
I know its rather a mundane solution and very basic in nature, but still did you try it?
 
Yes.
There is a hidden partition that it does not even see.
It sees my drive as a 15gb, but its a 16gb.
That other 1gb contains this U3 shit, that will not go away.

Linux had the same results.

I might be returning this, this is fucking annoying.
 
Well apparently that uninstall program only works on XP, no vista, no win7.
 
Yes I tried compatibility mode, admin rights everything.

So I'm going to a friends house that has an xp box.
 
Yeah, come to think of it, when I removed the U3 crap on both of my Sandisk drives, I was running XP. I believe it saw both partitions, because that's what really drove me nuts about it. When I went to safely remove hardware, I'd see 2 drives for the 1 physical drive.
 
sounds about right. I was probably at work on our xp pc's rather than home on vista.
 
Ok, that is why just a simple formatting from Disc Management did the trick for me. I was and is using Win XP :)
 
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