"clickfree" USB HDD

Jon VanAlten vanaltj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu May 27 18:49:59 UTC 2010


Are you sure it is two separate pieces of physical storage, and not
two partitions of the same drive?  Either way, have you had a look at
it with something like gparted?

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> We recently got some of these at work. When they're plugged in, they
> show up with a small "47mb" filesystem with the software that autoruns
> in windows, as well as a regular drive.
> The small filesystem appears to show as a ISO9660 drive (fake CD-ROM
> drive?). I'm guessing that it's just a little bit of flash memory,
> perhaps an embedded SD card or something similar.
>
> If it's a ROM chip I'm guessing it can't be changed. Alternately,
> anyone know of a way I might overwrite that little area of flash drive
> with something useful (like a rescue image)?
>
>
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