Comments on: Flash Drive Warning: U3 drives=Not so Smart

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:55:41 +0000

I don’t like portable programs so much as they usually lack all the functionality of the full installed programs

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:29:45 +0000

It is better to use some portable utility which leavy no traces of usage on your computer or drive.

There are one free software BDV SecretFolder which can hide a folder on USB Flash Drive. It is safe, because you do not need anything to be installed, and hidden folder are really invisible under DOS, Windows Linux etc.

Check it here: http://www.bdvnotepad.com/secretfolder_en.htm

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:02:18 +0000

Luckily my flash drives suffice so I don’t have to use any u3 drive.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:31:48 +0000

I have a 2GB U3 flash drive, have exceeded the password tries (actually my wife did), not able to find any program or information on how to recover the data, everything I find says I have to lose it all and start over. Is that correct? it is hopeless? Thanks in advance for your reply.

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:51:14 +0000

I just read the article and sounds to me like you have a personal issue with U3.
Just because it doesn’t work in your case (or you lack the intelligence to make it work) doesn’t mean you should go crap on a perfectly good product.
Offcourse since you try to make it work on a campus computer it probably never hit your tiny mind that the computer in question might have security restrictions in place that prevent the U3 menu from launching (and yes… even other autorun menu’s and software from other vendors (like portableapps).
Does this mean the flashdrive is at fault ? absolutely not.
Is the security of the computer at fault ? probably not.
Some things in life have to be accepted. So either accept it doesn’t work on those computers or start bitching at the security department to make a security hole in their network just so you can be a happy U3 user. Offcourse if you do… be sure to act like you have a pair and accept the responsibility when your campus network suddenly happens to appear on the public internet !

Sounds more like a case of BNC (Brain Not Connected) on the user end !

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:35 +0000

It’s a shame you never thought to look in the “My Computer” and disbale the autorun to begin with. Furthermore, if you are so tech savvy, you could go to hardware manager and reassign the drive letter if it was not showing up in the directory which is probably from having the first available drive letter previously assigned to another drive.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:55:50 +0000

This didn’t help much. What happens if it says “USB NOT RECONIZED?”What do I do?

By: karan k

karan k — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:21:30 +0000

Thanks a lot. This was very helpful. Finally I can use it

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:49:59 +0000

You’re stupid for buying it without looking at it in depth, but that doesn’t matter. There are many pros to the u3 program, and there are a few cons. A lot of people like the u3 program, and it is even customizable if you know just a little bit about coding. You can set it to where it won’t auto run, and when you first plug it in you can erase the u3 program and use it as a normal flash drive. 1) Its not even a bad thing, and 2) You can easily remove it. Its not that hard. I guess the point of my comment is, you’re pretty stupid.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:04:10 +0000

Thank you!!! I have a 4GB model and the dang thing would only ever show up as a 1.3 GB, I couldn’t repartition and format didn’t help at all!! I downloaded the uninstall program and it worked, and now it shows as a standard 4GB like I wanted! THANK YOU. I haven’t found ANYWHERE else online that helped me, and I’ve been looking awhile. I’m a tech, so It was pretty important to me to get the full volume of this drive.