I purchased an HP SimpleSave 320GB.
The darn thing has a CDFS partition that I cannot remove for the life of me.
So I purchase a Western Digital Passport 500GB drive.
Same thing.
At least WD has some twisted way of "disabling" the auto launch of the CD partition, after agreeing to two separate EULAs…
So now it is disabled, but still has a stub. Grrr…
Oh, no. They are not U3. That would have made it easier at least.
And, I hate it that now '500GB' is only 500,000,000,000 bytes now, instead of really 500GB, or 536,870,912,000 bytes! I am only getting 93.13% of what I paid for!
I am robbed not once with the stupid CDFS, but twice with size!
Yes, I am ranting because I was trying to get this drive ready before I had to pack it up today, and it is not ready.
I hate that when U3 came out, and prior to the ways to remove it, I really wanted to tear my hair out.
The darn thing has a CDFS partition that I cannot remove for the life of me.
What about getting in with a hex editor nuking partition?
What about getting in with a hex editor nuking partition?
From reading up on it, it worked on the older versions, not on the newer ones.
It seems vendors got annoyed that people did not want to use their software (which happen to 'call home' daily), and moved some of it into the firmware.
It looks for the CDFS, and if it does not exist, it just creates it. Wonder what happens if there is no space to do so? Of course, would have to get to the part where I can write to the CDFS.
Here are two senior projects! Find out what exactly these tools call home for, and figure out how to disable AND remove AND return the space to common use.
How much you want to bet that the removal of the software voids the warranty for manufacture defect?
D 100%
Of course, I should have just bought an enclosure and a drive and call it a day.
I was in a pinch, and we all know what happens when we try to take short cuts.
Hard drives haven't been measured in real GB or MB for as long as I can recall, which is over 20 years. I have a Maxtor drive in my collection from '93 which was sold as 130MB and is really only 125.5MB. Plus, with any drive once you format and partition it, you're going to lose a bit more of that space to overhead. This part is old news.
As for that silly boot partition, have you tried fdisk?
And, I hate it that now '500GB' is only 500,000,000,000 bytes now, instead of really 500GB, or 536,870,912,000 bytes! I am only getting 93.13% of what I paid for!
This has been the case for a long time
To delete those pesky partitions I use often use a gpartd boot disk but I have found that the EASEUS (free) partition manager works great also.
I guess I have been around computers longer then . . .
There is no technical or scientific reason for the "rounding", simply marketing.
And, I hate it that now '500GB' is only 500,000,000,000 bytes now, instead of really 500GB, or 536,870,912,000 bytes! I am only getting 93.13% of what I paid for!
This has been the case for a long time
I guess I have been around computers longer then . . .
There is no technical or scientific reason for the "rounding", simply marketing.
And, I hate it that now '500GB' is only 500,000,000,000 bytes now, instead of really 500GB, or 536,870,912,000 bytes! I am only getting 93.13% of what I paid for!
This has been the case for a long time
Don't forget the good old floppy disc sold as having a capacity 1.44MB - I don't think so lol
Dear God I am old cry