USB is recognised as DVD drive!

[d0nny]

I wanted to produce a self-running PowerPoint show on a USB stick to give away at a conference.
After some research, I found that MS Windows wouldn't recognise a USB autorun.inf file with an EXE in it and self-run, like a CD/DVD drive would. Nevertheless, I produced an autorun.inf file with icons and actions, etc. The pop-up box appeared and the first option was to launch the PP viewer with my show.

I then passed this over to a Chinese manufacturer to load this onto 400 1GB USB sticks.
When I got the stick back, after I plug it in to my Win XP system, the system firstly recognises the USB stick then recognises a DVD drive! And then automatically loads the PowerPoint show!!
In my Windows Explorer, I have 2 new entries - the Autorun entry and the USB entry (which the system thinks is a DVD drive)!

Any answers on firstly why it does this?
Secondly, how I can I do this?
(I suspect this is something to do with the USB hardware or the way in which the files were copied onto the stick)

Cheers ....

 

[d0nny]

I've since found out more about this saga.
The USB drive is partitioned into 2 partitions. The first partiton is formatted as CDFS and therefore looks like a CD drive. Apparently, this is prevalent in free USB drives you get at trade shows etc. They're full of advertisments on the CDFS partition!

Anyone know how to create a USB drive like this?

 

[wahnula]

I don't usually point to other forums, but this addresses your issue pretty well:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=217832

Interesting stuff.