How to eliminate 1.4mb floppy from usb stick?

[dogbone]

I've got an old 32Mb usb stick which always mounted as two volumes. One was a normal 30mb volume and the other one was a 1.4Mb floppy.

I've realised that I could probably use disk utility to erase the whole thing and reformat it into a single volume but I have been unable to do so. It was formatted to fat 32 at one stage.

Is it possible to do with disk utility? I want to be able to use it to transfer files to a pc and get rid of the useless 1.4mb volume. Everytime I mount the stick both volumes mount.

 

[yippy]

That is odd. It is showing up as two completely separate disks, not as two partitions like any other drive would that mounted two volumes.

I wonder if the drive has two separate disks in it as a "feature" of the drive.

 

[PatrickF]

A lot of USB sticks have a second read-only drive that stored utilities for the stick, such as security access utilities.

Nothing you can do about that I'm afraid, apart from find a way of stopping OS X from mounting the second volume.