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Plain USB thumb drive

Oct 17, 2009 4:51AM PDT

I have a 16G San Drive, and the extra programs installed in it are absolutely infuriating. Are there any large USB thumb drives around without that trash in them?

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Kingston Datatraveller
Oct 18, 2009 8:06AM PDT

16gb, no extra programs...at least not that I recall. If it had any, I simply deleted them. In any case, why not simply delete the programs on your flash if you don't want to use them? Last year I bought one of those Cruze Micro flash drives with the U3 software. Simply reformatted it to wipe out the US software which was a waste of time. All flash drives can be reformatted to be "plain jane."

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Didn't work
Oct 19, 2009 7:33AM PDT

So far as I can tell, the extra trash is in RAM and cannot be erased.

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Oct 22, 2009 7:58AM PDT

The extra stuff is in "ROM", not "RAM".