[mdlug] Advice

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:22 AM, James Kissel <jlk at osml.eu> wrote:
>  On 06/29/2012 11:11 PM, 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.
>>
>> 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.
> A while back I had a similar problem.  I bought a thumb drive from a
> bargain bin.  Turns out is had some kind of 'follow me' partition on it
> named L3 or R3 or similar.  There wasn't anyway to remove the partition
> other than to use the manufacturer's special program as they has
> programmed the drives firmware to always save this special partition.
> Their program only ran under XP.  I had an old Sony laptop on which I
> had keep a small XP partition when I dual-booted the machine.  It's the
> only time I found a use for dual boot back to MS Windows.

There are tools under Linux for managing such devices now. I just
can't remember their names. I recall seeing them in both Debian and
Gentoo stock repositories.

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