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I tried to find out some information about the drive. Kinston sells two different USB sticks, "DataTraveler Locker" and "DataTraveler Locker+". The normal one has the ability to create an encrypted partition in addition to the unencrypted one, the "+" has only an encrypted partition.
As far as I understood the manual, when you plug in the drive into an USB port, the OS gives the first (small) partition a drive letter. Then it executes an autorun program from this partition which sends the password to the USB stick, which will make a 2nd encrypted partition available giving it a new drive letter.
On the normal "DataTraveler Locker" the encrypted partition can be disabled by simply formating it with FAT32 or NTFS using Windows Explorer. I don't know if this works with "DataTraveler Locker+", since there isn't really any need to allow this kind of operation if you can't create an unencrypted partition at all.
Maybe the software to set the password can be tricked to think the "+" USB stick is just an normal one, which allows unencrypted partitions. The other question is if the USB stick's ROM code can be fooled this way.
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