{"id":70,"date":"2007-03-20T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T03:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=70"},"modified":"2007-03-20T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T03:49:56","slug":"usb-u3-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"USB U3 removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis mentioned in Episode 51 about hating USB thumb drives with &#8220;U3&#8221; technology.  Especially scary since it shows up as a CDROM drive on windows (usually with an &#8216;autorun.inf&#8217; file &#8211; very bod).  Anyways, my buddy Brian just happened to bitch to me tonight about this shitty USB drive he had.  I grabbed it up, did some Google searches, and about 5 minutes later, reformatted his USB drive without the U3 partition (and gained an addition 5MB of space).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the legalities of distributing it, so I&#8217;ll just say &#8216;do a google search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=U3_Uninstaller.exe\">U3_Uninstaller.exe<\/a>&#8216;.  It&#8217;s Windows only, takes only a few seconds to run, and worked like a gem on the drive I tried it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis mentioned in Episode 51 about hating USB thumb drives with &#8220;U3&#8221; technology. Especially scary since it shows up as a CDROM drive on windows (usually with an &#8216;autorun.inf&#8217; file &#8211; very bod). Anyways, my buddy Brian just happened to bitch to me tonight about this shitty USB drive he had. I grabbed it up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}