San Disk Cruiser Glide and Windows XP sp3

btman16

Hi,

I have a Windows XP computer that a friend gave to me, running XP professional sp3. When I attached a San Disk Cruiser glide usb flash drive, it told me that it found new hardware. I accidentally launchd the San Disk secure access program, and later I discovered that, because there were pictures on it, Windows Explorer began showing a "USB video device".
I think this computer also has a built-in webcam. Is this video device icon something that would have been shhowing all along? All my searches on this gave me results for installing actual cameras on XP.

Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any assistance you are willing to provide.

Thanks,

Brandon

garirry

If I'm correct, Windows will only show that it's a camera if there's a firmware inside the flash drive or just a piece of software that tells the computer that it's a camera. If you format the drive (using the HP Formatter for example), then it would probably be gone and you could re-transfer the photos back to it. Personally, I find the software pre-installed in flash drives pretty useless and makes things more complicated.

SomeGuy

On some models of Sandisk USB flash drives, you have to run special utility to get rid of their crapware.

TCPMeta

Backup the files with a different PC then use the HP USB flashdrive program and wipe it and ditch the Scandisk crapware.

btman16

TCPMeta wrote:

Backup the files with a different PC then use the HP USB flashdrive program and wipe it and ditch the Scandisk crapware.

How do I delete the video device entry? I don't have the Sandisk program on it anymore because I formatted the drive from Explorer, or is this hp tool something entirely separate from San Disk's tool?

Thanks,

Brandon

thinkpadman

btman16 wrote:

TCPMeta wrote:

I don't have the Sandisk program on it anymore because I formatted the drive from Explorer, or is this hp tool something entirely separate from San Disk's tool?

There's no relation to SanDisk and HP's utilities. The HP utility that garirry and TCPMeta are referring to is a utlity that allows you to format USB flash drives, change the filesystem, and also make the USB drive bootable. It was originally for HP branded drives, though in practice works with other brands.

http://ccm.net/download/download-127-hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool

TCPMeta

From my experience it will wipe the whole thing and basically completely rewrites the whole filesystem of the jump drive and then Windows should see it as a standard jump drive afterwards.

btman16

Hi,

Even when the drive is removed, it still shows usb video device.

How do I delete it? When I uninstall from device manager it comes back on every reboot.

Thanks,

Brandon

TCPMeta

Only thing I can think of is find out the device address and delete it from the registry and then after reboot it should see it as a new device.

WindowsXP

You can write to Microsoft Windows on facebook...

garirry

WindowsXP wrote:

You can write to Microsoft Windows on facebook...

wat

WindowsXP

garirry wrote:

WindowsXP wrote:

You can write to Microsoft Windows on facebook...

wat

I mean you can send to Microsoft Windows on facebook by chat and there ask you question.

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Ik bedoel dat je een bericht naar Microsoft Window
Windows op Facebook via de chat en dar je daar je vraag kan stellen.

garirry

WindowsXP wrote:

I mean you can send to Microsoft Windows on facebook by chat and there ask you question.

No offence, but I think you're overestimating Microsoft. They're not going to help you with something so awfully simple (yet awfully complicated for them) especially on Windows XP, and ESPECIALLY not through their FB chat.

WindowsXP

I did that too....