I plugged in my drive and I saw the U3 partition (I installed smithtechs's applauncher on it) was gone :puzzled:. I discovered the launchpadinstaller from sandisk. I tought of making a backup, but that option was available in the installer so I didn't. I ran the installer: My drive was fryd and my files where gone :jawdrop:. Got my Documents back with an app that scans you're drive for deleted files :cool:, but all my portableapps where stille gone :(. I hate U3!!!!!!
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That's why I do a complete backup at least twice a week...
Also, we knew U3 was bad...:wink:
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Bought it 2 month's ago: still got guarantee :evil:. But I still got to install all my apps again.
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I'm not sure why you are so angry.
You hacked the drive.
After hacking it it did not perform as expected.
After hacking it the launchpadinstaller from sandisk did not work as expected.
Aren't these the risks involved in hacking?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
This "hack" uses the LPinstaller to replace the ISO with its own. I ran the installer before because I wanted back to u3 because the Wallpaper Swapper (don't hate me :P), it worked fine. The reason that the CDFC partition didn't show up is a Hardware problem!!! So not caused by the "hack", but by the very unstable u3 system. Too did the installer "backup" my files, but if it turnes out that the instalation failed, it deletes all the files :S. So now I have a 1Gb non-u3 drive that costed 20 euros, whereas I could have a non-u3 drive with double the capacity for the same price!
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Isn't a U3 drive just a normal drive with some special soft factory loaded on it?
Also: is it really U3 to blame, or was it the typical "Delayed write failed" with which Windows so often deleights us?
(Sorry, just asking... I never delved into U3).
It needs the hardware to fake a CD drive for the autorun.
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Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
...at yourself, for buying a U3 drive in the first place.
Think of U3 as the "Yugo" of thumbdrives, and you begin to get the picture.
To put it in King James English,
"Verily, it meseemeth that U3 doth sucketh.".
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- Brad Stine
It also screwed up all the drivers for the cd-rom-stations
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He might not have known he was getting a U3 drive. I just bought a 4GB drive from St***es and all they had on the shelf was a paper with the purchase info and details that you take to the register. There was a picture of the drive with no U3 label, the specs did not say U3. I did not see the actual unit until I got home (the salesperson got the drive from storage and stuck it in the bag). I did not want U3 and took reasonable precations about not buying one but still got one anyhow so it CAN happen.
First thing I did was googled U3 uninstall and got the program to remove it because darn it I wanted those 6MBs!
Like my Sandisk Titanium Cruzer. I love love love love it. It has been dropped, run over, fallen down hills and rocky cliffs with me, and still worked fine. And the sliding usb port is very very neat. Came with U3, which I promptly removed because I didn't like the fake drive it made, and the software available wasn't that much of an enticement to me.
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Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
Sorry about your data.
You broke the first rule, backup, backup, backup.
I even put it in bold red letter on the instructions page.
Anyway, if the drive isn't actually fried, just missing the U3 partition and its a Sandisk drive you can probably get it (the U3 partition)back.
It may require some tweaking and tinkering with the installers though.
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Happely I've got all my personal documents back. The U3 partition is gone and I cannot open the other, windows says that I've to format it.
EDIT: just looked in the control panel it's visible there but theres a exclamation mark on it. I think it just screwed up the drivers :D. But how do I get them back? Already looked for it on google but I haven't found anything but a driver for Win98
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Try disabling the drive on device manager and then enabling it. That's what I have to do with my Kingston and Verbatim U3 drives that I removed the U3 stuff. When I plug either one into my Dell laptop from work, 99.9% of the time it will not mount properly. I do the disable/enable dance and it works just fine after that.
Both work fine in my homebuilt home desktop and my older Dell laptop. Other, smaller non-U3 drives I have work fine on all three.
If I read the other posts correctly and this is a botched Launchpad install, then the drive may very well need to be formatted.
At this point it depends on what you want to do.
If you want the U3 stuff, you can still try to reinstall it(the U3 Launchpad).
If you don't care about the U3 stuff you can try formatting the drive. You may also have to delete and recreate the partition on it. You can use the windows drive manager. Try just a plain format first.
You can also try the disable and re-enable mentioned above but I have a feeling it isn't going to work.
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Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.
"Because they stand on a wall and say, 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.'" (A Few Good Men)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.(Albert Einstein)
Is always an excellent idea, and is about the only useful thing on can do with it anyway.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
My new 4GB flashdrive is an U3 smart drive, but I surfed this site's pages and now I am just realizing that U3 technology is useless...
Why do I have to install an app with U3P extension from the U3 menu and let it create a folder called 3C9B4B3F-D55C-245vf-8537-B889415453393 instead of download a classic EXE and have a folder with the name "ApplicationPortable" and the PortableApps.com menu???
Why do I have to lose some space of the drive with a read-only partition that is seen as a cd by my computer?
What's the real advantage in using an U3 "smart" drive???
please tell me...
...'Nuff said...
All is not lost, however:
>> Simply format the drive and use it like normal people.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
Deleted the drivers with regedit, formated the drive and installed u3 again (for the autoplay). And know it works again
thanks smithtech for your help
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