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Imation Disk Manager II

Posted by ady on Mon, April 30, 2007

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A funny story. I just bought myself a 4GB flash drive to substitute my old 128MB Imation flash drive. So I was trying to format the Imation drive when I found a big loophole to the software.

The Imation flash drive comes with a firmware that automatically creates an executable to run the Imation Disk Manager II software. You can make the whole disk public, separate the disk to 2 partitions (public & secured), and the whole disk secured.

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For the secure partition you’ll need to run the software and enter a password if you want to access the files in it. I am not in the hacking business so I have no idea how secure it actually is. But this is another story, not about the secure partition.

After I have copied the files to the new location, I simply execute the software and it let me reformat the entire disk without asking for a password. Easy, but dangerous. If the drive falls into the hands of somebody clueless (say your 4 year old brother) or someone with bad intentions, you can say goodbye to your data ;-)

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I was actually looking for looking for the Imation Swivel Pro flash drive but no shop in Low Yat have the 4GB version. They only have the 2GB version. I surely don’t think that the Imation Clip Flash Drive is available over there!

In the end I got myself a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB drive which is a U3 compatible drive. Now I have Portable Apps and U3 in one drive :-)


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4 Responses to “Imation Disk Manager II”

  1. Jauhari says:
    Mon, April 30, 2007 at 16:39:26 GMT+8

    My USB Disk still on 1GB ;)

  2. ady says:
    Tue, May 1, 2007 at 03:00:23 GMT+8

    1GB is good enough, it’s just that the price per GB always drop when the capacity is bigger and since it’s not too expensive I just grab the largest I can have!

  3. Paul says:
    Thu, December 11, 2008 at 12:01:05 GMT+8

    My Imation Pocket Flash Drive 8GB is write protected can you help me how to disable “write protect” i tried the Imation Lock but it says still my flash drive is write protect. please help me thanks

  4. ady says:
    Fri, December 12, 2008 at 09:37:28 GMT+8

    I only own a very old 128MB flash drive and as I mentioned I ended up buying a Sandisk Cruzer Micro as a replacement. I will continue to buy Sandisk products as I am very satisfied with the quality. Can’t help you there with your Imation drive, sorry.