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97 - Write-protect or make a CD/DVD partition on a Flash Drive

using SMI_UFDiskUtilities

Introduction
You can buy a Flash Drive with a write-protect switch - e.g. Kanguru SS3 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (Amazon) or some of the
PQI Flash drives.
If your USB Flash Drive (UFD) has a Silicon Motion Inc. (SMI) controller inside it (such as many of the UFDs from Lexar),
then you can use the SMI_UFDiskUtilities application (hereafter called SMIUFD.exe) to make a CD/DVD partition, writeprotect the mass storage area, or even split the mass storage area into two and password protect and hide the 2nd
area.

Main SMI.exe menu

If you have one a compatible UFD (such as a Lexar JumpDrive), here are some of the very useful things you can do with
this utility
1. Split it into a read-only CDROM device and a read/write flash drive
2. Create a secret hidden r/w area which can be accessed via a password
3. Change the physical size reported by the UFD - this is useful if you want to have a 256MB UFD to use on an old
BIOS that does not like large UFDs
4. Write-protect the UFD
Some more advanced SMI controller reprogramming tools can be found here. Use these with caution! You must set up
all the Settings fields before you reprogram (password is 320) and you may destroy your USB flash drive!

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Tested
UFDs
SMI
controller
UFDs that
work with

SMI_UFDiskUtilities.exe
Lexar FireFly JumpDrive VID = 05DC PID = A731
Lexar JDVE 16GB VID=05DC PID=A795
Lexar 4GB (with capacity meter) VID = 05DC PID = A788
UFDs with an SMI controller that don't work
Lexar 16Gb VID = 05DC PID = A010 (slide button with blue X LED
in LeXar logo)
Netac U2C 512MB VID = 0DD8 PID = F607
Microsoft 1GB 'Freebie' VID = 090C PID = 1000
Lexar 512Mb JD Secure VID = 05DC PID = A701
Note: Many other UFDs were tested which did not have SMI
controllers and they all did not work: e.g. Kingston, HP, Corsair,
Patriot, many unbranded ones, Maxell, SanDisk, Intenso,
Verbatim, Pretec.

Some important notes before you begin

SMI_UFDiskUtilities_1.0.0.2.exe works on XP through to Windows
8. Note: different versions work with different USB controllers - try
both older and newer versions if this one does not work on your
flash drive.
Close all applications and save all work before using this
utility!
IMPORTANT: If you do not have a suitable SMI UFD present, then the utility will 'freeze' your system - the
mouse pointer and keyboard will freeze and only CTRL-ALT-DEL will work, and as you have no mouse you cannot
quit the utility to regain control! So it is very important that you check that you have an SMI controller in your UFD
and that it is connected first before you run the utility!
Check you have an SMI controller inside your UFD using ChipGenius (included with the download)

When quitting the application - there is a bug and it does not quit correctly when you click the cross at the top-right
(sometimes this isn't even displayed!). To quit the utility, double-click on the Kill_SMI_UFDisk.cmd file provided in
my download.
I recommend you right-click on the .exe file and set the properties to XP SP3 compatibility mode and Privilege Level
to Administrator

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IMPORTANT: Ensure you only have one external USB drive connected at a time - you could accidentally format
or destroy a different drive!
VERY IMPORTANT: I cannot accept any responsibility if anything goes wrong! I did not develop these utilities and
they could make your UFD completely unusable! I suggest you first try it on a spare (non-essential) PC or notebook
first!

Functions in the Utility

Here is an example of what you will see if you have used this utility to format an 8GB Lexar Jumpdrive UFD to have a
Public and Security Disk as well as a CDROM partition.

Example of the 'Write Protect' form

The 7 buttons are:
1. Write Protect - can set one or more 'disks' on the UFD to a WP status
2. Partition - can divide the UFD into to 'disks', one public and one secure
3. Login / Logout - allows a user to login and use the secure partition
4. Change Pwd - changes the password required by 'Login'
5. PC Lock - ????
6. AutoRun - divides the UFD into a storage area and a read-only CDROM area
7. BootDisk - will format the public storage area and copy MS-DOS files to it
I will explain what each of the 7 buttons do in detail below:

Write Protect
This allows you to Write Protect one or both of the mass storage 'disks'. If you start with a UFD that has never been used
with this utility before and just contains one normal partition, this will allow you to write protect it. To remove the write
protection status, re-run the utility and set the radio button to Enable. Note that no password is required, so anyone can
un-write-protect the 'disk(s)'. The CDROM/DVD 'disk' is always write-protected.
If you have split the storage area into a public and secure area, you can write-protect one or both areas.

Partition

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Note that this is an 8GB UFD, but 4.5GB were allocated to the CDROM 'disk' partition
This button allows you to partition the current flash memory flash disk area into two 'disks'. One is public and will be seen
as the only UFD when the UFD is first inserted into any system. Note that this also affects the Physical Size of the device so Windows Explorer (and RMPrepUSB) will report a 3GB device if you have made the public disk 3GB in size. If a user
runs the SMIUFD.exe application and Logs in with the correct password (see below), then the public 'disk' will disappear
and be replaced by the 'secure' disk (you may need to click F5 in Windows Explorer to see the new files (if any). The
Physical Device Size reported by Windows or any application will now be the size of the 'secure disk' - e.g. 1GB. You
cannot boot from the 'secure disk' because as soon as you remove power from the UFD, the 'public disk' will be shown
when power is next applied.
Set the Volume names that you want for each of the 'disks' in the boxes provided before you click on the Partition button.
If you have set a password, you will be prompted for it - this prevents unauthorised users from deleting any files in the
'secure disk'.
If you are unsure of the password - try 0000 (four Zero's).
Note: You cannot use a blank password - if you attempted to remove the password by leaving it blank in the Change Pwd
function, then you will not be able to partition the UFD - go back to the Change Pwd functions and set a new password
(leave the 'Old Password' field empty to change the password)!
If the Copy Exe file after Partition checkbox is ticked, then the SMI_UFDiskUtilities_1.0.0.2.exe file will be copied to the
'Public disk' after it(they) have been formatted. This allows a user to run the utility to gain access to the 'secure disk' area.
If you already have a CDROM 'disk' defined, then the remaining memory will be used for the public and secure
disks.
If you already have public and secure disks, you can reformat and remove the secure disk by moving the slider fully
to the left.
If you want to remove the CDROM 'disk' completely, use the AutoRun button.
Note: Some old BIOSes will not boot from 'large' UFD devices. They may boot from UFD devices that are 256MB (or
possibly 512MB or 1GB). If you have such an old BIOS, you can test this splitting your UFD into a 256MB 'public' disk and
the rest as the 'secure disk'. Then prepare the UFD with RMPrepUSB to make it bootable and see it it boots. If it does,
repeat but make a 512MB 'public disk' and test that - if it still works try 1 GB 'public disk'. I have seen several Intel
945/845/830 chipset BIOSes which had a 512MB limit and I have also heard of some BIOSes refusing to 'see' any UFD
over 1GB.

Login / Logout

This allows you to Login, which will then replace the 'public disk' with the 'secure disk'. You will also see the hint phrase
that you set previously as a reminder of the password. Note that Logout does not seem to work! To get access to the
'public disk' area again, you will need to remove the UFD and re-plug it.
Once you Login, the 'public disk' volume in Windows Explore will be replaced by the 'secure disk' volume - you may need
to hit F5 to refresh the contents in Explorer when this occurs.

Change Pwd

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This allows you to change the password and set a hint phrase. This is required if you have split the UFD into a 'public disk'
and a 'secure disk'. You cannot login with a blank password.

PC Lock
Locks the UFD. If removed and re-inserted it will be locked. To unlock, run the utility and choose UnLock. (I could not get
this to work!)

AutoRun

This badly-named button actually allows you to split the UFD into a pseudo-optical drive and a flash memory area by
moving the slider. Set a path to an ISO file (not a folder) in the ISO File Path box (you can browse using the folder icon).
Click on the Make button to reformat the entire UFD into two disks, one for mass storage and one for the CDROM.
You can use a DVD ISO or CDROM ISO - for instance a Windows 8 Installation ISO will work. If there is an autorun.inf file
in the root, then XP will autorun when you insert the USB pen into a USB port (this is suppressed on Vista/Win7/8).
Windows Explorer will show two devices, a removable mass storage device (e.g. K:) and a CDROM device (e.g. L:). Note
that if you previously had a 'public disk' and a 'secure disk' - these will both be destroyed when you format the UFD with
'Autoruns'. If you want a CDROM+public disk+secure disk, then you must first use the AutoRun button and then use the
Partitions button.
IMPORTANT: Before you click the Make button, you must first set a CDROM Size that is larger than the size of the ISO
file - after you click on Make, the CDROM disk size will be automatically reduced to the smallest possible size, dependant
upon the size of the ISO that you picked.
You can then boot from this CDROM disk as if it was a USB CD/DVD device (e.g. Windows 8 installation DVD). The Bios
Boot Selection screen will list two devices (usually both have the same name - e.g. "USB: Lexar JD FireFly"). You will
have to guess which one is the CD device! This may also be useful for testing out any ISO files you have, without needing
to actually burn a CD/DVD.
To remove the CDROM disk area and return the UFD to be a normal mass storage device, move the slider to the extreme
left and do not set an ISO File Path and then click Make - note that this may produce an error because there is no ISO file
specified - the error can be ignored. All data on the entire UFD will be destroyed when you do this.
You may need to use the Kill_SMI_UFDisk.cmd script to quit the utility!

BootDisk

This button allows you to format and transfer files to the 'public disk' area - it expects you to point it at a folder or drive
containing MS-DOS floppy disk files. You will see a warning if it does not detect the MS-DOS system files in the folder you
select. The file SMI_UFDiskUtilities_1.0.0.2.exe will also be copied to the public disk.
Note that the volume created will contain an MS-DOS Volume Boot Record and expect to be booted as a floppy disk (so
you will need to set the BIOS that you boot it from to boot from a USB Floppy device!). For this reason this option is of

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limited use for most people. The volume will still appear as a 'Removable Disk' in Windows Explorer (and not as a floppy
drive).

ChipGenius and FlashGenius

ChipGenious will identify what type of Flash device you have and what controller and flash memory chips it contains.

IMPORTANT: before you start any tests, take a screenshot of the ChipGenius data for your USB flash drive and keep the
file. This tells you the original VID\PID and serial number, etc. These will be erased if you use a Mass Production (MP) tool
to reprogram your USB device!
FlashGenius just displays information about the type of flash memory for any specfic flash memory part number (if it is in
the database). Look at the Flash memory part number displayed by ChipGenius - e.g. MT29F64G08TAA - and enter this in
the Part Number box:

ChipGenius4.zip
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(using grub4dos) suitable for BIOS
flashing
38 - Create an iGel Universal Desktop
Converter (UDC) installer USB Flash pen

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39 - How to repair your USB Flash drive
40 - REDO, a Bare Metal Backup and
Recovery solution
41 - Microsoft Standalone System
Sweeper (MSSS) ANTIVIRUS Beta Tool
42 - Make a mini Windows 7 bootable
USB pen (using MAKE_PE3)
43 - Install Windows 8, Server 2012, Win
7, 2K8 & Vista from multiple ISO files on
the same Flash drive
44 - USB Boot Kaspersky 10 & 2012
Rescue Disk (AV)
45 - How to PXE boot grub4dos or WinPE
(from a Windows 7 PC) using tftpd
46 - Ubuntu 12.04/11.04/11.10 - boot
from ISO
47 - How to install Windows Vista/7
/SVR2K8 onto a USB drive (or any
partition)
48 - Is your BIOS lying to you about it's
RAM memory size?
49 - Control your Notebook/Media Centre
PC from your main PC with Synergy
50 - Prepare a bootable USB drive using
linux commands
51 - How to edit or make your own
Language.INI file for RMPrepUSB
52 - Install Windows 8 as a VHD (no need
to re-partition!)
53 - Windows 8/8.1 To Go (boot Windows
8 from a USB drive!)
54 - How to Fix Write-Protected
Read-Only Drives and SD Cards
55 - Boot Slax from a USB drive
56 - Forgotten Windows password? No
problem with Kon-Boot!
57 - Automatic grub4dos menus, using
hotkeys, hiding the menu and silent
startup
58 - Trinity Rescue Kit - boot from USB
59 - Save or list all your current
passwords
60 - Add Plop to your grub4dos menu
61 - Run the OCZ SSD Firmware update
ISO from a bootable USB Flash drive
62 - Chainload syslinux from
grub4dos/grub/grub2 and vice versa
63 - Install XP and Win7 onto a computer
from one USB flash drive containing ISO
files!
64 - Boot Abstradrome HDD Regenerator
from an image on a USB drive
65 - Make a grub4dos bootable ISO
66 - Boot WifiWay/WiFiSlax wireless
security OS from a USB drive (persistent)
67 - Boot Fedora 16/17/18 with
persistence from a USB drive using
grub4dos
68 - WEE (wee63) and WEEsetup.exe an alternative bootloader
69 - Boot over the internet with iPXE
70 - FbInst and other popular USB utilities
71 - Grubutils - menuset, wenv, bios,
grub4dos utilities and batch files
72 - Easy2Boot - a grub4dos
multiboot USB drive that is easy to
maintain!
73 - Try Porteus with persistence booting
from an ISO using Easy2Boot
74 - Boot Winternals ERD Commander
from ISO or flat file structure
75 - Test your memory (RAM/DIMMs)
76 - Quickly setup PXE booting to install
any Windows OS or PXE boot linux, etc.
with SERVA!
77 - Create a multiple partition, multi-boot
USB Flash drive under Windows
78 - Run live XBMCbuntu from a
multiboot USB drive
79 - Make an RM Connect CC3 MultiStation Build USB Flash drive
80 - How to retrieve files from a computer
without booting it to an OS (via PXE)!
81 - Make your own automatic Windows
restore partition (ImageX-based)
82 - Install XP to hard disk from ISOs
using WinPE v3
83 - Download ImageX, BCDBoot and
other WAIK tools
84 - Switch XP to AHCI mode

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85 - Add the O&O DiskImage
Professional ISO to your USB multiboot
drive
86 - Dynamically change the disk volume
label using grub4dos
87 - Install the Ultimate Boot CD onto a
USB drive

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