{"id":188,"date":"2008-02-25T01:16:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/let-me-have-my-full-usb-drive\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:28:22","slug":"let-me-have-my-full-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Let me have my full USB drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/windowslivewriterletmehavemyfullusbdrive-132fkingstonratthumbdrive-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"KingstonRatThumbDrive-1\" src=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/windowslivewriterletmehavemyfullusbdrive-132fkingstonratthumbdrive-1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"191\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week I bought 2G <a href=\"http:\/\/kingston.com\/asia\/flash\/dt101.asp\">Kingston DataTraveler 101R<\/a> special edition (Year of the Rat) and plan to put my existing JetFlash 2G thumb drive as a file backup.<\/p>\n<p>I expect this new USB drive to be empty or just has some bundled software in the drive but not the full locked partition with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crippleware\">cripple software<\/a>.&nbsp; Kingston tech support confirm that it cannot be removed.&nbsp; I may need to find a way to remove this partition in order to continue using my TrueCrypt security software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/windowslivewriterletmehavemyfullusbdrive-132f1544idrive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"325\" alt=\"1544-I Drive\" src=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/windowslivewriterletmehavemyfullusbdrive-132f1544idrive-thumb.jpg\" width=\"355\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They should have put a warning at the package that the bundled software cannot be removed.<\/p>\n<p>So long Kingston.&nbsp; If you continue doing this, you will not get my money again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I bought 2G Kingston DataTraveler 101R special edition (Year of the Rat) and plan to put my existing JetFlash 2G thumb drive as a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[183,20,141],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-kingstion","tag-software","tag-thumb-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}