ToddAndMargo wrote:

> Gregory Shearman wrote:
>> ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>
>>> HI All,
>>>
>>> I have a PQI U339Pro USB thumb drive. It comes
>>> with an extra 10 Meg partition with usb utilities
>>> targeted at M$Windows users.
>>>
>>> How do I get rig of this turkey!
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -T
>>
>> man fdisk
>>
>
> fdisk says it can not write to the drive.
> Any other ideas?

Did you try sudo gparted ?
I had a'secured' USB stick from work, and it only worked with windows.
With gparted, I threw out all partitions.
Once the stick was completely empty, I created a new fat32 partition.
Now I can use the stick in both windows and linux environments

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Marc