diyfiesta Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Hi Folks, I stumbled upon the USB hacks stuff and switchblade which looks fascinating and thought you might be able to advice me on something. . . I got a free 64MB USD stick with a magazine and on insertion it pops up a browser and points it at the magazines advertiser (I guess that's why it was free), looking into it, it has a read-only partition with an auto-run - voila! So, I was thinking this must be a U3 style stick right? Its re-branded with the magazine's logo so I can't tell the manufacturer and I can't manage to do anything with the official U3 software. So my question is around how I find out if this is a U3 compatible stick and how I might kill / reformat the read-only / cd-rom-looking partition? Google hasn't helped much so far. Any tips greatly appreciated. Thanks, :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmer Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Go to the read-only partition. It should have a file called "LaunchU3.exe" or something similar. Another method is to download the Universal Launchpad Hacker, plug in the drive, run the program, and see if it identifies the drive as a U3 drive (e.g. it will go past the splash screen). The Universal Launchpad Hacker page (see previous link) and the actual program both have a bit of instruction on how to use them to put files onto the cd partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diyfiesta Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Wicked, thanks, I'll give it a go and report anything interesting ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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