Programs For U3 Smart Drive Support
Easily find and download software and drivers for your HP products including pcs, laptops, desktops, printers, tablets, apps and services from HP Customer Support. In brief, if you have a U3 Smart flash drive (as is the case for many current flash drives, especially those from SanDisk) and use Windows, you can set it up so that, when you insert the drive.
Okay, now that we have got our USB set up, ensure that you cycle the USB - That means to take out, and plug the USB back in. You should have seen both a CD drive AND a USB drive show up in 'My Computer' when you plug the USB back in. If you didn't, then you will have to do some searching for the program appropriate for your USB.
Go onto the USB (Not the CD Drive) and add a file called 'fake-u3.ini' (without the quotes). Open up the file you just made with notepad and write into there:
(Program you want to run; even a directory to a program)
so for me, its:
U3 Flash Drive
StartPortableApps.exe
Because I'm using the PortableApps suite. THE IS VERY IMPORTANT
Just so you know..
This is a very simple VB.NET program, it works by getting all the drives and searching for the 'fake-u3.ini' when it is found, it opens it and opens the EXE specified in the INI.
Also, you should be aware that this doesn't really work the way it did when I first wrote this instructable. Microsoft have disabled CD autorun, so you will have the same outcome as with an ordinary USB drive when running Windows 7 or higher.
U3 Smart Drive Windows 10
Please Enjoy :)
I'm sure it was a great program, but it doesn't work anymore and will need a massive code cleanup to support the latest libusb.
U3-tool works perfect.
U3-tool is good! Thanks.
Helped me removing this nasty U3 stuff from my USB drive. Thanks!
Works great! just run what Adam posted 'u3-tool -p0 /dev/sgX' without the quotes and 'X' replacing what it says for your device !OH and MAKE sure you run it with sudo!! or root, otherwise it wont work and give you errors. This is just to clarify for those of us who dont use the terminal and get lost with cli. thanks daviedev