reformatting the MBA thumb drive ?

[macchiato2009]

hey there

the question might have already been asked

but any trick to reformat the read-only MBA thumb drive (reinstall usb drive) provided with the MBA ?

many thanks

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Still a no-go when takes past threads (dozens, maybe hundreds) into account. Why would you do it anyway? What if you need to use it for its purpose?

 

[macchiato2009]

a friend of mine gave me his and the reinstall drive is no more needed

but its size is so great and i would like to re-use it

 

[simsaladimbamba]

a friend of mine gave me his and the reinstall drive is no more needed

but its size is so great and i would like to re-use it

Okay. I hope your friend does never need it (which will be the case if he did a proper backup of it).
As to the formatting, it is currently not possible.

 

[macchiato2009]

i saw someone today who has one, the person told me that there is a trick by using windows and but didn't have time to explain me how

i have been searching on google for hours now without any luck

 

[rw3]

You can format the drive using a Windows based program...

http://mckaywei.com/how-to-format-macbook-airs-usb-drive-and-restore-it/

 

[macchiato2009]

i tried this chinese crap already, it doesn't work

windows is freezing every time i launch this

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You can format the drive using a Windows based program...

http://mckaywei.com/how-to-format-macbook-airs-usb-drive-and-restore-it/

Thanks, didn't see that in the last threads about this issue.
Seems I have been wrong.

 

[rw3]

I have used it at least 10 times now and it works great for me. Are you running it as Administrator or just a user?

 

[macchiato2009]

admin

i've just retried again,

now the thumb drive is not even recognized on the mac