I need help.
At home, I do not have an Internet connection. At home, I have two computers, one with Ubuntu and one with Vista.
I previously had my portable apps on a 1 GB flash drive. I recently bought a 4 GB Cruzer Micro.
It has U3 on it, but because I had Vista and Ubuntu at home, I didn't realize it.
I transfered all of my portable apps onto this flash drive.
Now I am at school and the only thing that shows up on explorer is a U3 cd drive, which doesn't work.
How can I reclaim my flash drive?
I tried accessing the flash drive through a command prompt and found it had only U3 folders in it. This drive is plugged into Windows XP at the moment.
I formatted the drive right after I bought it, shouldn't that erase everthing?
Help...
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You could try the u3 uninstaller. I used that and my 4GB Curzer Micro drive works on vista. U3 Uninstaller
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Thank you.
My situation is not that Vista doesn't use it, but that I can not use my portable apps at school, where I am now.
I did download the uninstaller, but I need administrative privileges to use it so I must wait until I am home, but I do not have problems at home.
Is the U3 on a different partition? I could erase that in Vista and then repartition the disk in Linux. I thought reformating the drive erases the entire drive.
If I understand correctly, you are trying to use this on your schools pcs. If so,
It could be that your school's IT department does not allow the use of flash devices, but if they do they could be allowing only 1 drive letter to be open, so the cd-rom partition of the u3 disk is taking that, giving the removable disk portion no drive letter to work with. Since you do not have admin rights, there is no to fix this on the schools pc. If you can place a normal flash into the school pc and it comes up fine, the above is probably the reason.
What you would then need to do is remove U3, which will format the drive completely, so back up. and then reformat as a normal drive. The school pc will use the first and only drive letter for that and you are good to go. You of course would have to do this at home.
Outside of that, flash drive use is a hardware thing, and if your schools IT department, choose to not allow it, the only thing you can do is request they turn it back on. Probably won't do anything, but worth a shot.
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Thanks. I can run portable apps here, but since there are two drive names it chooses the first.
I miss my running my apps.
Sometimes life would be easier if all storage devices had nothing preinstalled, even PCs.
Thanks for the help.
This is what's known as the two drive issue. Many semi-locked down PCs like those at schools, libraries even PCs to print out your photos at the drug store only allow the addition of a single drive/drive letter to the system. U3 is incompatible with these systems as it requires two drive letters. You must uninstall U3 to be able to use your drive on these systems.
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