[Cialug] Modifying a read-only flash drive

[L. V. Lammert]

At 11:13 AM 5/10/2010, you wrote:

>I've tried using DBAN to just wipe the entire thing, but it actually sees
>two physical disks on the USB key.  Is there any way to remove the read-only
>switch on this, or am I stuck with 4MB of vendor crap popping up every time
>I insert the stick?

Have you tried to drop in a new partition table with fdisk? I have 
had to do that before to get rid of some of the U3 stuff.

         Lee