initializing disk

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Does anybody knows how to initialize an already initialized disk. If entering
Disk management a disk only could be initialized once.
Now I got the requirement to reinitialize a new FLASH module already format
by Vendor. Until now I deleted last two bytes of first sector (0xAA55).
Afterwards I'm able to initialize this disk again.

Is there a way to do this in a more comfortable way? - e.g.: any command
line tool
 
On Nov 23, 2:54 am, martga <mar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Does anybody knows how to initialize an already initialized disk. If entering
> Disk management a disk only could be initialized once.
> Now I got the requirement to reinitialize a new FLASH module already format
> by Vendor. Until now I deleted last two bytes of first sector (0xAA55).
> Afterwards I'm able to initialize this disk again.
>
> Is there a way to do this in a more comfortable way? - e.g.: any command
> line tool

Disk Management is usually the way to go. Disk Management does not
normally block the re-init of most drives (execpt C:\.)

What is the complete details of your problem?
 
I got a USB flash device which is detected as local disk. Vendor of this
device offers a software package which supports booting Windows XP or W2K3
from it. Starting such a installation requires a fresh initialization of
device. They recommended to delete 0x55AA signature of first sector and
afterwards to initialize disk again inside disk manager. If not doing this
the USB drive will not boot Windows.
So what I would like to avoid is using any tool to delete this 0x55AA.

I just had a look inside my disk manager. There is no way to re-initialize a
disk offered. This context sensitive feature only appears when deleting this
magic key before.
 
On Nov 26, 2:41 am, martga <mar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I got a USB flash device which is detected as local disk. Vendor of this
> device offers a software package which supports booting Windows XP or W2K3
> from it. Starting such a installation requires a fresh initialization of
> device. They recommended to delete 0x55AA signature of first sector and
> afterwards to initialize disk again inside disk manager. If not doing this
> the USB drive will not boot Windows.
> So what I would like to avoid is using any tool to delete this 0x55AA.
>
> I just had a look inside my disk manager. There is no way to re-initialize a
> disk offered. This context sensitive feature only appears when deleting this
> magic key before.

Not familiar with such a software package. However, most of the flash
drives I have seen can all be handled by Disk Management. I would
contact the device's manufacturer and ask them how to delete the
0x55AA signature, since they make both the device and software.
 
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