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Re: SanDisk USB stick problem



On 12/8/20 8:40 AM, steve wrote:
Hi,

Le 08-12-2020, à 08:29:47 -0700, Fred a écrit :

Hello,

I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick.  The fine print on the package says it has SecureAccess software.  It is so secure it prevents me from writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus infested, scourge of the Earth software.

fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$ ls -l
total 8416
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   16384 Jul  9  2018 SanDiskSecureAccess
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8600360 Nov  4  2016 SanDiskSecureAccessV3.01_win.exe
fred@ragnok:/media/usb0$

root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /media/usb0
chown: changing ownership of '/media/usb0': Operation not permitted

Attempts to add write permission are also denied.

Is there any way to disable or remove the SecureAccess software?

Use gparted or fdisk or… to erase the partitions and then create a new
one (ext2 or ext3 if only for linux, or vfat for both Linux and Windows).

I am not familiar with fdisk or gparted and will study these shortly. I am presently drowning in things to do. It looks like the best thing to do is reformat it. If this doesn't work I will ask for more help.

Best regards,
Fred


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