@Terry, I had the same issue first time I tried, I hit enter a couple times and nothing happened then after about 30sec the commands came through and the command window closed gracefully.

I can’t close the command prompt by clicking the “X” and nothing appears when I type “exit”. I’ve tried ending task on it in Task Manager, but that doesn’t work either and I’m forced to reboot as the only means of closing it.

Can anybody provide a clue as to why this is happening?

The USB I am using is Vendor ID = 090c => SMI Chip ( SMI vendor ID can be different than “090c ” ) Same as the instructions indicate. When attempting to partition for a CDFS (although eventually useless I thought due to the 650-700Mb limit, I would try to learn more & have a go)
Strangely the program worked as stated, except it limited my usb to a 50MB partition. In the diagram it shows 600+Mb.

Anyone got any ideas? Have also played with hidden partitions which were cool (ROHOS Seemed the best for me) & did have password entry, but seemed useless as I am still able to format the USB. I wouldn’t say its idiot proof! I also have to display the manufactures logo for the software which is a bit of a lead to cracking the security as people know what I have used to lock it.
Basically want to be able to hand out a USB stick for someone to take away, knowing they wont delete it accidentally. I understand there is always more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to copying something & not always full proof. But has to be a way to secure it as much as possible to the USB.
Banged head against screen many time & pulled hair out attemting to find the answer to this without forking out cash & sending data overseas to save money.

Come on!!! Someone out there knows something about something here!!!!
Reply’s greatly appreciated!
Thanks for reading & sorry to blabber on so long, had this topic contained for a while & it needs to get out!

And This Code is used to delete The Fake Dummy File and so let you write into your pendrive.

‘—————-NoDummyFile.vbs—————
‘hackoo.ifrance.com
‘© Hackoo ©
checkUSB
NoDummyFile
‘—————————————————-
sub NoDummyFile
Dim WshShell,FSO,Drv,Dtype,Dfree,DfreeMB,Dtot
Dim Dname,Dpct,Dused,Dserial,Dinfo,filespec
Set WshShell=WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
Set FSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
filespec=”IamDummy”
For each Drv in FSO.Drives
‘If Drv.DriveType=0 Then Dtype=”Unknown ”
‘If Drv.DriveType=1 Then Dtype=”Removable”
‘If Drv.DriveType=2 Then Dtype=”Fixed ”
‘If Drv.DriveType=3 Then Dtype=”Network ”
‘If Drv.DriveType=4 Then Dtype=”CD-ROM ”
‘If Drv.DriveType=5 Then Dtype=”RAM Disk ”
If Drv.IsReady Then
If Drv.DriveType=1 Then
Dfree=Drv.FreeSpace
DfreeMB=FormatNumber(Drv.FreeSpace/(1024^2),0)&” MB”
Label=Drv.DriveLetter
If (fso.FileExists(Label&”:\IamDummy”)) Then
Set MyFile = fso.GetFile(Label&”:\IamDummy”)
MyFile.Delete
End If
MsgBox “Espace Libre dans Le Flash Disk “&Label&”:\”&” est Environ de ” &DfreeMB,64,”Espace Libre”
end if
end if
Next
end Sub
‘—————–checkUSB———————–
Sub checkUSB
strComputer = “.”
On Error Resume Next
Set WshShell = CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”)
beep = chr(007)
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(“Select * from Win32_DiskDrive WHERE InterfaceType=’USB’”,,48)
intCount = 0
For Each drive In colItems
If drive.mediaType “” Then
intCount = intCount + 1
End If
Next
If intCount > 0 Then
MsgBox “Votre Flash Disk est bien Connecté !”,64,”Flash Drive Check !”
else
WshShell.Run “cmd /c @echo ” & beep, 0
wscript.sleep 1000
MsgBox “Votre Flash n’est pas Connecté “,64,”Flash Drive Check !”
End If
End Sub
‘—————-End of NoDummyFile.vbs—————-

Thanks for the awesome post.

I have a listing of drives with links to the manufacturers at fencepost.net/2010/03/usb-flash-drives-with-hardware-write-protection/ based on information from c’t magazine, forum searches and too much reading of manufacturer spec sheets.