Sorry, this is waaaaaaaaaaay off-topic, but I wondered if any of the USB experts might happen to know:
I was at the UK Embedded Systems Show the other day, and got a free USB stick from Farnell. When plugged-in, this shows up as two drives: 1. A CD-ROM drive, which has an auto-play promotional movie on it; 2. A "normal" USB drive.
The trouble is, every time you plug it in, it tries to play the movie again!
:-(
Win-XP says the CD-ROM part is read-only, so won't let me delete the files or format it.
So, is there any way to get rid of this movie? Or do I just junk the whole stick?
Yes, that is exactly it!
I know that there are ways & means to stop the Auto-Run, but that is just a symptom - the real problem is the fact that there is this 2nd "drive".
So, is there any way to reconfigure this as a single "drive" ?
No practical one, I'm sure.
If you have the applicable tools, it might be entertaining and/or educational to hack the device, replacing the firmware with a straightforward USB memory stick implementation. But in terms of return on investment, it'd be an almost certain desaster.
Definitely - it's only a 512MB stick!