So basically, I just purchased a defective usb flash drive. The reason I bought it is because I’ve been using a 4gb cruz (my daughter’s) and it’s been working flawlessly to write boot images on. This one isn’t recognized as a removable disk, so there goes 90% of usb utilities out there.
A sandisk bit flip utility should be in the works. We are intering the age of solid state hard drives afterall, changing their removable media status makes flash storage more versatile.