remove U3 system on USB

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Sandisk Micro Cruzer 8GB with a U3 system - Fatal mistake.

At first I saw the U3 system, and decided that formatting the thing would make it a normal USB drive, and .. I'm proved wrong. Acting without researching now leaves me with a piece of dead plastic. It won't do anything. It detects the drive as FAT32 and 0 diskspace, detects the U3 as a CD-ROM, yet it becomes read-only.

I cannot remove the U3 from it with any installers i've downloaded, and now I don't know what to do.

Does anyone have any solutions to this?

 

Well to remove U3 you need to use the uninstall directly from their site.

HERE

Try that first. If not, just go back to the store you bought it and exchange/return it.

Monkeybone

 

If that doesn't work, try restoring the U3 system to repair the damage you've done, then uninstall it properly.

 

I like to use the U3 programs when I go to the somewhere that might not have the programs you need

 

reformat the thing as fat32. i use gparted, but i think windows disk manager should do it.

 

The HP utility has always worked for me and will make a bootable pendrive.