As for the Win 7 machine, make the LaunchU3.exe run in Vista SP2 compatibility mode if your Win 7 is 64bit. The U3 CD partition launches the U3 menu but the apps are on the writable partition and since your’s got reformatted it explains the blank menu. Not sure why the Dell app made your’s FAT16, though it does offer the most booting compatibility. BTW My U3 writable partitions are either FAT32 or NTFS. My writable U3 partitions are bootable while keeping the U3 CD partition. So the utility only wiped out the writable partition.
" there still seems to be a 7MB CDFS hidden partition with the U3 boto code or what not on it." If it originally had U3 on it have you tried reinstalling U3 on it? There’s a download link for it around here somewhere. " copy back the contents (including u3launch.exe) from my PC" Have you written to Dell about their utility and ask them how to reverse what it did? " I had downloaded Dell’s 32bit diagnosticcs untility which has an option to format a USB flash drive as a bootabl diag tool." So basically I just need to clear the parittion(s) and make this device’s 14.9GB usable again. Not sure if any of this info matters though. On Win7 I get prompted to run u3launch.exe but ofcourse it’s gone so there’s an error that results. Now, if I plug this blank UFD into my XP system, it autoplays and launches the little red Crozer icon that when clicked brings up the menu system with the Eject button and all that. Though ithe process wiped out the main U3 files on the readable partition itself, there still seems to be a 7MB CDFS hidden partition with the U3 boto code or what not on it. If I reformat as either FAT32 or NTFS, I’m still stuck with the 2GB partition with no apparent means of re-partitioning. In short, I can do nothing except re-format (or copy data to/from) that initial 2GB FAT partition. Problem is, in Disk Management on any system here (XP Pro SP3 and Win7 Pro SP1 32bit), I am unable to Delete the partition, nor create a new partition out of the 12.9GB of unused space. I did what I needed to do with the booting and diags, but now I’d like to revert this UFD back to normal, giving it the 16GB (14.9 usable) it had originally, then copy back the contents (including u3launch.exe) from my PC. The end result was a single 2GB FAT partition, the remaining space unparttioned. I proceeded to click the button to do this, everything else was automated.
Today while working on a Dell laptop issue I had downloaded Dell’s 32bit diagnosticcs untility which has an option to format a USB flash drive as a bootabl diag tool. I’ve got a 16GB Cruzer Titanium, hardware works fine.
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