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OT: One for the USB experts...

Andy Neil

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?

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  • 0 in reply to Chinzei Tsuneo

    There are a number of companies that are selling this kind of products.

    One products boots a special application from the CD partition, and this program then makes cryptographic access to the data on the second partition, while allowing no-install applications to be run on windows and accessing protected data files.

    Another common trick is that a number of GSM modules initially boots as a CD, to allow the PC to install the drivers from the virtual CD. Obviously a bit problematic when not using them on a Wintel platform.

    There are also a number of USB thumb drives with one open partition with either a rescue program or a cryptographic driver, and a second disk that has protected or unprotected user data.

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  • 0 in reply to Chinzei Tsuneo

    There are a number of companies that are selling this kind of products.

    One products boots a special application from the CD partition, and this program then makes cryptographic access to the data on the second partition, while allowing no-install applications to be run on windows and accessing protected data files.

    Another common trick is that a number of GSM modules initially boots as a CD, to allow the PC to install the drivers from the virtual CD. Obviously a bit problematic when not using them on a Wintel platform.

    There are also a number of USB thumb drives with one open partition with either a rescue program or a cryptographic driver, and a second disk that has protected or unprotected user data.

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