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?
"If the memory is described to the OS as a ROM drive, no amount of hex-editing will write to it."
Actually, that is why I suggested winhex. In effect, it bypasses the OS and allows direct writing to the device. A read only file is described to the OS as read only, but you can still manipulate it.
But ... I guess if the device really does have a read only partition, I guess you're options are really limited.