[mdlug] Advice

[Aaron Kulkis]

Mat Enders wrote:
> Sorry I misunderstood your situation.  I have also seen this before.
> I bought a phone that came with a Star Trek movie on the MicroSD in
> the phone.  I never was able to get rid of it even by wiping and
> partitioning the card.  The partitioning appeared to work but upon
> removal and reinsertion the movie was still there.  I was never able
> to get rid of the movie.  I do not know why.  All I know is that it is
> possible to lock these kinds of devices down so they can not be
> altered.
> 

Maybe the movie was in an area made into ROM by logic gates
which disabled (or simply didn't pass through) the "write"
signal line to that section of memory.

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
>>> Garry I have seen this before. It happens when a thumb drive is improperly
>>> removed. It does not always happen when you improperly remove a thumb drive
>>> but it does happen sometimes. End result is the thumb drive is now dead.
>>>
>>
>> But it isn't dead, you just cannot get rid of the files that lock a windows
>> computer from using it with anyhing but WMP.  It will not even change the
>> partitioning.
>>
>> --
>> Garry  AKA  --Phoenix--  Rising above the Flames.
>>
>> Politically I have given up on being an anything-arian. I am for
>> accountability and nothing else. Hold the government, in specific the office
>> holders, elected or appointed, accountable for all actions taken in office.
>> Authority must be granted grudgingly and reluctantly. When it is abused it
>> must be snatched away at once. Be it a minimum wage screener at the TSA or
>> the President of the United States.
>> Star Trek mort. Viva la Star Trek admiraetur
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>>
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