U3 drive problem

[Mark Wieder]

Walt-

Had a similar u3 problem. I had foolishly enabled the u3 security, so
that I had to type a password to access the data. Seemed like a good
idea at the time to protect my data in case something happened to the
device.

Worked fine for a few weeks. Then neither Windows nor Mac would
recognize the data drive. All I got on Windows was an hourglass that
would come and go every ten seconds or so until I removed the drive. I
could see the system drive on the mac, but not the data drive. Which
makes sense since it was password-protected. My linux box did just the
same.

What finally saved me was downloading the launchpad installer,
installing it on the Windows box, rebooting, running the launchpad,
(yay! it showed a password dialog) typing in my password, REMOVING the
u3 security, and deleting it from the drive. Along with all the other
software that came with it.

Most u3 drives don't work with Vista. And I'm still waiting for the
fabled mac version that they promised us last year. Hopefully rev got
some visibility out of the "partnership" deal. Hopefully the public
won't associate rev with the u3 label.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net