Here's help! The stick is still okay!

Who is happy with the stick, easy to read at the next review. Who, however, to benörgeln something that is here perhaps helped:

1) NTFS
The stick can be, other than as described by some reviewers, well formatted with NTFS. Just not "mouse click". The following method is certainly not for "John Doe", you have to SanDisk already blamed. Only Lieschen would not necessarily require NTFS. So how to do it? Just looking at the command line of XP
Format X: / FS: NTFS
Enter (X: replace with the correct drive letter of the stick). Then he will be formatted either unceremoniously. Or there is an error message that tells you exactly what you still have to click before it goes. Do that, and repeat the format command. Why? The stick is in its base adjustment in system optimized "for quick ejection", which does not fit with NTFS, which wants the setting for "fast write speed." The way Windows integrates the stick, you can modify both cases shown by a few clicks.

2) Boot
The stick can "FreeDOS" and everything that can be booted with "syslinux" boot. But not a single version of Windows. No XP, no POSReady2009, no WinPE, BartPE etc. Probably not a Vista / Win7 - which I have not checked, but it is fairly certain, see "diskpart" below.
Also popular among Stick jockeys, "HP's Swiss army knife for USB sticks", namely "HPUSBFW_v2.2.3.exe" does not help here. Even Microsoft's "diskpart.exe" and "bootsect.exe" from the WAIK developer kit must fit here.
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Very helpful I felt about the tool "launchpadremoval.exe" SanDisk. Only as long as one uses the stick as supplied, he can not be bootable for Windows. But after removing the U3-clutter with the said program also works all problems!

3) U3:
U3 still will not run on any current PC (15 very different models tested) and is still hanging some PCs when plugging away completely. Annoying if you have the stick just infected about to finally save the Word document after 3 hours time. U3 is small, simple and - scrap.
"Portable Apps" is safe for many users a more meaningful and more robust alternative to U3. It has not affected the machinery, for which I am responsible. And the programs cost at PortableApps almost all nothing (donations welcome) and nearly all open source (at U3 is reversed). Encryption systems of / for PortableApps I entrust to regular reading c't principle rather than those of U3 manufacturers. My tip here: TrueCrypt.

Otherwise:
The sliding mechanism is a bit strange when plugging. Especially if you stick to the hard to reach (rear-left-but-pass-on-is-up-there-there-close) or to poor visibility (have-you-by-palpate-same-next-the-edge just-before-the-screw) must use ports. Ultimately, the mechanics are but clever and robust and goes by constructionem not after a few hundred times broken, as with other sticks already experienced.

I hope my review has helped you a decision to make and ask you politely to a fair evaluation.