Removing annoying menu software from a USB flash drive

I used to have a cheap flash drive from PNY Technologies. It was just memory, I accessed it through My Computer(I use XP) and stored things on it. The casing broke and I can't carry it with me anymore. Now I have a drive from Geek Squad, and it has an annoying program that gives me an interface for opening the drive with lots of laggy flashy graphics and requests to download other stuff. I don't need the process taking up CPU power, and when I show hidden files and try to manually delete all of the files, when I plug it back in it reinstalls itself. Is there any way I can just purge everything? I can copy the contents of the drive to my computer, so if a format is necessary I won't lose anything.

I would get an annoying software pop-up with my old 1 GB Cruzer flash drive every time I would enter it in to the USB slot. Never figured out how to get rid of it, though. I think things like that are imbedded.

Doesn't happen with my newer flash drive, it's a Memorex 4 GB. I think flash drive companies finally wised up and decided that the users don't like to see any extra crap when they plug the thing in.

@AirRick. I had a Cruzer drive too, you can download a program to remove that mount from their website.

Licity, I recommend googling the name of your device and "removal." You should find a tool to remove the mount. If not then you'll have to find a Linux PC or a Mac and use one of their disc utilities to erase the device completely so that it won't get reinstalled. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Windows doesn't have that kind of tool by default.

cool, ninja. thx for da info

It might have two harddrives, if so, you can't do anything really. You can prevent the software from opening with Autorun, as soon as it opens. If it has one harddrive, just go to My Computer, then the flash drive, then find the files that open and delete them.

It does have two hard drives, but they aren't physically two drives, it's one that's been partitioned in an annoying way.