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Posted by GJ on December 31, 2008, 6:38 pm
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> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:36:17 -0500 kurt wismer wrote:
>
>> GJ wrote:
>> > My nephew was given a no-name mp3 player, which looks like a USB drive,
>> > for
>> > Christmas.
> <snip>
>> > 1) AMT_CDROM , a read only drive
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2) MP3_PLAY, a drive which contains mp3 files to be played by
>> > the
>> > player.
> <snip>
>>
>> i think you may find that it is possible to delete these files, or more
>> accurately it should be possible to overwrite the partition on which
>> virtual cd drive exists with a new ISO file containing whatever you
>> like...
>>
>> it will almost certainly require special software specific to the
>> technology involved but i was able to 'neuter' the U3 installer on the
>> sandisk cruzer i bought earlier this year using just such a method...
>> unfortunately i don't know the name of the technology that would give
>> you the AMT_CDROM drive - a U3 disk would show U3 as the name of the cd
>> drive...
>>
> You might consider a LiveCD of gparted,
> <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>. It should be possible to
> delete
> the partition in question and then expand the remaining partition to
> occupy
> the entire drive.
> --
> Ernie B.
>
> Communication: The art of moving an idea from one mind to another,
> hopefully
> without distortion.
I don't think this is the same as the U3 system, which is based on a
software start-up and it's easy to delete the U3 system software files(I've
done this on my 4Gb Sandisk Cruzer). The files involved here seem to be in
a rom in the device and they are ungettable at if you get my drift. The evil
partition seems to be set up by hardware and the files can't be deleted.
GJ
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