I spoke with a rep. at Sandisk, and he claimed that this was probably caused by my creating more than one partition on the drive. Their drives, he said, "aren't made to handle more than on partition".

My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running malicious software that resides ...

USB plug-and-play devices are the easiest to use. They are also the easiest method to infect computers. Plenty of tools available in the market claim protection against USB infections. In this article ...