thumb drive with U3

i have a 8gig sandisk cruzer thumb drive. running vista home premium on my desktop.

the thumb drive has 2 partitions .. 12mb and 7.64gig.

how do i go about combining those partitions and formatting it. i don't need and don't want the U3 software that is on the smaller partition.

i've been to disk management and can format each partition. but don't know how to merge them into a single 8gig partition.

thanks in advance.

Backup any data from the disk first.

Then in disk management right click each partition and choose “delete volume.” This will give you an unallocated space the full size of your drive. Right click that space and go through the wizard to create a new simple volume.

With these I understand the U3 partition is recognized as a CD.. and as such you may not be able to just simply format and or partition..

Try this tool..

http://www.u3.com/uninstall/

Use the tool and it will keep you from possibly damaging your thumbdrive.

It works a treat.

thanks undertaker. worked perfectly.

my only quibble is that it shows as 7.66G. the partition that U3 was on doesn't show up at all anymore. but 30MB "missing" is no big deal.

thanks again all.

There is a bit of overhead and do not forget that Windows uses a different way of calculating the size and it is not based on 10 but on 2.

1 GB being 1,000 MB while the true size is 1 GB in computer speak is base on 1,024 not 1,000 so the true number is less than what the manufacturers call it.

I have two smaller thumbdrives from them and couldn't stand the extra fluff (U3) they put on them....I just wanted them for straight file transfers. When I removed it, I was pleasantly surprised that the world didn't cave in like they warn on their site. :rolleyes: