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From: turnerpaul on 17 Nov 2007 06:52
I need to find a way to create a partition on a usb key in CDFS
instead of FAT32. Does anyone know a way?!

The reason is so that I can put an autorun file in the CDFS partition
that fires up when you insert the usb key.

There's already a company called U3 that make usb key's that do this,
but I need to find a way to do this ourselves - it's proving quite
tricky!

I thought there might be some partition software that can do this?
Windows will only let you format USB key partitions as FAT32.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks guys

Paul

From: HEMI-Powered on 17 Nov 2007 08:18
turnerpaul(a)gmail.com added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

> I need to find a way to create a partition on a usb key in
> CDFS instead of FAT32. Does anyone know a way?!

What is CDFS? I thought the only two choices, or at least the
main choices, were FAT32 and NTFS. Or, are you running Linux or
something other than standards Windows?

> The reason is so that I can put an autorun file in the CDFS
> partition that fires up when you insert the usb key.
>
> There's already a company called U3 that make usb key's that
> do this, but I need to find a way to do this ourselves - it's
> proving quite tricky!
>
> I thought there might be some partition software that can do
> this? Windows will only let you format USB key partitions as
> FAT32.

Hmmm. My only choice for native Win XP Pro SP2 is NTFS. If I want
FAT32 I need a 3rd party utlility such as Partition Magic.

> Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks guys
>
> Paul
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From: Conor on 17 Nov 2007 10:26
In article <a3a40099-3935-4d2f-89cd-0d29bb37a878
@b36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, turnerpaul(a)gmail.com says...
> I need to find a way to create a partition on a usb key in CDFS
> instead of FAT32. Does anyone know a way?!
>
> The reason is so that I can put an autorun file in the CDFS partition
> that fires up when you insert the usb key.
>
> There's already a company called U3 that make usb key's that do this,
> but I need to find a way to do this ourselves - it's proving quite
> tricky!
>
> I thought there might be some partition software that can do this?
> Windows will only let you format USB key partitions as FAT32.
>
> Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks guys
>
> Paul
>
>
You don't need to format it as CDFS to do this. Just stick the
autorun.inf file in the root of the key.

--
Conor

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Paul on 17 Nov 2007 11:13

>
> You don't need to format it as CDFS to do this. Just stick the
> autorun.inf file in the root of the key.


Great idea but I'm afraid it's not as easy as that! XP won't autorun
from usb sticks. However I think Vista does.
From: meow2222 on 17 Nov 2007 15:14
turnerpaul(a)gmail.com wrote:

> I need to find a way to create a partition on a usb key in CDFS
> instead of FAT32. Does anyone know a way?!
>
> The reason is so that I can put an autorun file in the CDFS partition
> that fires up when you insert the usb key.
>
> There's already a company called U3 that make usb key's that do this,
> but I need to find a way to do this ourselves - it's proving quite
> tricky!
>
> I thought there might be some partition software that can do this?
> Windows will only let you format USB key partitions as FAT32.
>
> Any help or advice would be really appreciated. Thanks guys
>
> Paul

There are partition managers that do a wide range of formats, such
as Partition Logic, but whether that does cdfs I dont know.

Win will run an autorun file on the drive regardless of filesystem,
just set your win settings to auto insert notification on if its not
already.


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