Just bought one of these Cruzer Fit USB flash drives and initially I want to put a light linux distro on it to work with my PC’s bios. However, I see that this drive comes with the following files and would like to know please if I copy these to a folder on my PC and later wanted to revert to having the Cruzer Fit as originally supplied, would it just be a case of deleting its contents and copying back the files I’d saved onto my PC?
folder: club_application
folder: SanDiskSecureAccess
autorun.inf
RunClubSanDisk.exe
RunSanDIskSecureAccess_Win.exe
Does this drive just have a single partition on it?
As it is supplied with a FAT32 partition, does that mean I can only save files smaller than 4MB?
Will the above software be available in Windows 8 format for existing owners of one of these drives?
“would it just be a case of deleting its contents and copying back the files I’d saved onto my PC?”
Yes, but I don’t think it would be necessary to delete the linux distro. In fact I don’t think it’s necessary to delete the current SecureAccess folders and files to add the linux distro. However, some linux installs do wipe the disk before installing so making a copy of the files & folders to your pc would be a wise approach.
“Does this drive just have a single partition on it?”
I believe that to be true. How many drives do you see when you plug it into your pc?
“As it is supplied with a FAT32 partition, does that mean I can only save files smaller than 4MB?”
No! Files smaller than 4GB can be saved on it.
“Will the above software be available in Windows 8 format for existing owners of one of these drives?”
??? What format do you think Win 8 is going to introduce? Just like Win 7 supports apps written for Win XP & Vista I suspect Win 8 will support apps written for Win XP, Vista and Win 7.
I just wasn’t sure if there was anything else, perhaps hidden on the drive to enable the SanDisk software such as the encryption capability.
I only see one drive and only one partition in Windows Disk Management but not sure if a hidden or special partition would show up there.
It’s an 8GB Cruzer Fit and shows as 7.45 GB free space now that I’ve cut and pasted the files & folders I mentioned before, to my HDD. It still shows as 16KB used space in ‘Properties’ even though I don’t any longer see any files on the USB drive. Is this perhaps the size of the FAT?
I got mixed up with my MB & GB, I knew FAT32 had something to do with a file size limitation but up to 4GB for a single file should be fine.
