From: MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> > I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with > the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably > less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable > and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3 part > of the drive. I've tried WinXP's format command, disk management and > CentOS's fdisk, and nothing will give me more than 7,872,512 bytes per > cylinder, times 1019 cylinders yields 8,022,089,728 bytes. Is that > right, or should there be more? fdisk also reports that the drive has > 8029 "MB", or 8029470208 bytes, which is 7,380,480 bytes difference > (until it gets allocated into the 8,022,089,728 bytes of the > partition) - I'm thinking this is a standard formatting loss. Maybe there is some reserved "good sectors" space in order to handle (take the place of) bad sectors? I don't really know how bad-sectors handling works... JD