I have a 4 GB usb pen drive, but I am unable to format it. Even if I delete some files and eject it , I am getting back the same files again? Guide me any cmds or any software to forcibly format my pen drive?
View 3 Repliesdont get me wrong i am happy with my Ubuntu until i want to use the usb maker thing.. i got netbook remix and now i want to install it.. i use one of my usb drives.. BUT.. ubuntu usbmaker dont let me formate it.. i have used gparted, yes with ntfstools and tried formate it in every possible way with and without flags and **** and usbmaker dont seem to accept it however.. the usbmaker cant do ****.. it tells me it cant use the stick** and then gives me everything from 1 - 2 partitions.. i have backtracked this problem as far as i can it i dont get it..unetbootin makes it work great! but why shold i have to go so far as unetbootin to get things done? is usbmaker the most unuseless pice of software or what.. ?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi am running xubuntu 9.10 and can't format any usb drive (tried few of them). The same issue i had with fluxbox mint 8 (based on ubuntu 9.10) I thought that my usb drives are dead, but after formatting it in windows xp, i could run from them any linux distro. I installed then mint xfce 6 (ithink based on 8.10) and crunchbang based on 9.04, and had no such issues. But now i am back on Xubuntu 9.10 and want to make all live usb within it. At the end of formating process i have message something like: cannot mount usb drive: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked. Of course, no drive is locked. After that i can start making installation usb disk, but after some percentage it reports some error, and of course, it does not work.
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An upgrade %100 pwnd my system: I performed an upgrade to Lucid from Karmic and I lost my keyboard input and sound etc etc etc. I then made a Karmic boot-run/install CD, & a USB startup stick. I then backed up my important information on flashdrives etc. At this point in time I have 2 partitions one with my old user account & info on it, and the other as a new (re)installed Karmic partition. My question is: What is the procedure for:
a) formatting the drive,
b) not keeping the 2 partitions, and
c) re-installing Ubuntu (karmic) back onto it?
I have GParted ( but I can't see how to use it to format ), and I have no clue how to format the Drive from either within the GUI or at the command-line. How do I format & re-install Ubuntu? What is the sequence or steps? I can probably do the re-install intuitively but I'm concerned there may be Ubuntu tricks I don't know about! Also- does this 2 partition thing cause any complications to formatting?? So honestly my question is simply how to format the drive from within the system.
I have a PC with really low specs ( it's a back up computer) that's running puppy linux but I don't really like it. It's hard to navigate/get things you could easily do on Windows Xp done, it's menus are crowded and well it can't even shut off properly which is a shame. I've had it on for only a week.
Anyways, I've downnloaded the Xubuntu . Iso and burnt it at 1x speed. I pop it in and it does take a long time to go through the install. ( I'm not sure if it's because of the disc read speed or because of the memory and what not) I chose the option to delete everything and install Xubuntu. It works and then I get a couple of error message and then the last one says something like " Can not format sda1" or something like that.
I am excited to install linux on my macbook air and have been trying to boot with a kingston 4gb usb drive but when I try to boot with it (holding down the option key on reboot) only the Hard drive shows up for me to boot up on.. not the usb drive.. how do I format the usb drive to be bootable in this case?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install ubuntu on a separate hard drive than the one I have windows 7 installed on. I have two 500 gb hard drives in my computer; one I only want to use for windows, and the other only for linux. The hard drive that I am not using yet (the linux one), for some reason, has a 100mb "system restore" partition on it, which i do not want on there...but when I try to format the drive in gparted, it says "cannot format drive, daemon inhibited". I also tried in fedora 14's disk utility, same error and message, and in windows partitioning utility, it tells me it cannot format this drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUpon installation of Ubuntu a while back, i was using a windows xp machine with two different harddrives. Instead of formatting the xp drive and installing Linux, i decided to install Linux on the secondary harddrive. This worked all fine and dandy until recent, when I have found my linux drive filling up near capacity. I would like to format the XP harddrive and mount it in linux to give some more disk space. The problem i have found, is that the XP drive is the drive with GRUB.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed UBUNTU inside my Windows XP. But the Windows is now corrupt and i want to format the windows drive. Is there any way that i can format the drive in which windows is present without effecting UBUNTU.Note:- Windows and UBUNTU are on different drives.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I boot from a CD (into xubuntu), how do I reformat the new hard drive (which will later contain ubuuntu and windows xp (wubi dual boot)).
I also need to know how to format the replacement hard drive using xubuntu, and which type of format to use - I think I need to use NTFS formatting.
I need some assistance in trying to format a USB hard drive to vfat format but can't seem to do so. I am currently using RHEL 5.3. I have tried the following commands and they all come back as "command not found"
mke2fs vfat /dev/sc1
fdisk vfat /dev/sdc1
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
What am I doing incorrectly?? Can someone please point me in the right direction??
I have a 160Gig and a 40 Gig drive.I would like to install the system on the 160 Gig, and use the 40 Gig drive as a storage for backups or whatever.It appears in the installation process that I am required to use a mount point, which would then turn the drive over to the root system, which would not allow it to be totally available to me.I just want to format it to ext3 filing system.Coffeecat, if you are out there and see this, strange things are happening to the 40 Gig drive - it says it is using 2 gig, but it is totally empty of all system files, hidden files, trash, etc. and it is being imaged in the media folder in root. I believe I have messed this install up to the point of no return and think I should go ahead and start over.
View 5 Replies View RelatedUnbeknownst to me the LVM volume (on LUN) that I removed from my server was in use by another system. So instead of vgexporting the volume group on one of the servers and then lv,vg,pv-removing it on the other I dismantled the LVM devices my servers (as belwo).
0. unmount the filesystem
1. Remove logical volume (lvremove <vg>/<lv>)
2. Remove volume group (vgremove <vg>)
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I am getting a new 4kb sector HDD for my laptop, WD scorpio black 750gb, I would like to image existing partitions on 512bytes sector HDD and move them to the new 4kb sector HDD, what's the best way to do this.
present config is as follows:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I am planning to keep the same three partitions as the primary partitions on the new drive and add few more logical partitions. I would have liked to move to GPT but since I need Win 7, I am stuck with MBR partiotion table.
Now, I understand how to partition an Advanced format disk, what I want to know is how to move the existing partitions on the 80 Gb disk to the new disk?
I use Clonezilla to copy partitions but it is not compatible unless both the target and the source disks are already using 4096 sector size.
I can use Acronis True Image WD Edition to clone Win 7 but how do I clone Ubuntu?
Also my Laptop's chipset is limited to SATA 1.5, will it cause any issues, I know the bandwidth is not an issue.
I'm using xfce, and the power manager settings, to only lock the screen when close, are not honored. The laptop suspends, no matter what, when closed. Is there a way to forcibily only allow xfce power manager to handle the close lid behavior?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIm trying to install ubuntu with windows xp, but I only have 1 disk. People at irc told me i Could make a new partition in this same disk without having to format the whole drive.. and this option should appear at the setup, but i dont have that option, it only show the option to format the drive or "do something else", And here i cant see anything that let me use the free space i have in the windows partition to make a new one...
my ntfs partition has at least 35gb contiguous free space of 200gb free so i thought i could use this to make a new partition, but idk how,
I'm not sure what to do, but I just rescued photos and documents using ubuntu live cd, gddrescue and photorec. The data carving went fine and I was able to move all of my recovered jpg's into a recovery/jpg folder, as well as my word doc's into a recover/doc folder. I also have recovery/video and recovery/audio. Now here's my problem...
I used the right-click "safely remove drive" from the ubuntu interface and then unplugged my external drive. I then tried to view the recovered photos, etc on my windows 7 desktop, but when I plug in the external drive I get an error and a prompt to "format the drive" so that windows can use it.
I plugged the external drive back into my failed laptop and with the ubuntu live cd can see the drive, but none of the folders display. I can cd "change directories" to all of the folders using a terminal, but still can't see them outside of the terminal. That is, with the ubuntu interface. I'm just trying to finish up recoverying these photos, which I thought I had done.
How do I format a USB pen drive? It would be great if there was a GUI solution and not a CLI one.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to format my new external hard drive (1.5TB) so it can be accessed on both Linux (Ubuntu) and OSX. Is that possible without using FAT system? If yes, what file system should I use?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI made a bootable Ubuntu installation within my USB stick but now I want to delete it.
First I tried deleting all hidden and no-hidden files and folders but obviously I need to reset the MBR or something.
In System->Administration->Disk Utility I formatted the drive having now a blank device (FAT), but still the Ubuntu image is mounted.
Then I clicked on 'Edit Partition' and uncheck the Bootable checkbox but it returns an error (whether mounted or unmounted the drive is).
This is the return log file of the error:
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Error modifying partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_change_partition: device_file=/dev/sdd, start=19456, new_start=19456, new_size=4013917184, type=0x0b
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=4022337024)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
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How do I completely format the drive removing this bootable Ubuntu installation?
i want to know how can i format usb drive in kubuntu ? i am using default file manager i.e Dolphin...
View 8 Replies View RelatedI use a Kingston 1 GB USB to install a Acer one with ubuntu 9.04 and works perfect, the problem come wen i try to erase the USB. I can't erase the files or format the usb. How can I mount the unit with the RW options. The sistem say "the unid is label Read Only"
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got some documents scanned today and had them put in a USB drive. The shopkeeper informed me that it has a virus, yet he transferred the files onto the USB drive. When I put it into my computer ten minutes later, the drive was not getting mounted. I read up and tried installing usbmount. After installing that, I managed to mount the drive. However, the drive was read-only on Ubuntu. On Windows, I found a virus and tried unsuccessfully to delete it (read-only). I tried again on Ubuntu, but didn't manage to delete the infected file (ReCyCleR/sEtuP.exe). I have now backed up all the files on the disk (except, obviously, the ReCyCleR directory). When I try to format the drive using gParted, I get:
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I was running ubuntu as a live cd and I wanted to format my pen drive into an ext3 filesystem. I put in sudo mkfs /dev/sda1, but know im thinking that sda1 was my HDD!! I removed the cd from my computer, and it wont boot up into windows anymore!The only thing that is giving me hope is that the mkfs took about 1 min to format whatever it was formatting (my pen drive or my hdd!!) and my hdd is 500gb big. Is there anyway that I could have accidentaly formatted my HDD?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an 80gb hard drive that I used in an xbox for xbmc and it was formatted to whatever it needed to be formatted to for it. Now that I want to use it in my computer, I can't format it back to ext4 or NTFS. It's somewhat recognized, but the partition shows up as unknown. Is there a program that I can get to reformat it? idk if gparted will work cuz it won't startup on the live CD. I will give it a shot once I install ubuntu onto the computer.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI Just got a Removable Hard drive! Now I need to format it because I need it to hold more then 4 GB file sizes. What format should i used. I'll only need compatibility with Other LINUX computers. So should i use NTFS, BTRFS, or EXT4? How would i take ownership of the backup drivers file system and not ROOTS permissions
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm on netbook remix and I want to wipe the entire thing clean. What is the easiest way to do this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was looking in the disk utility today, and i was looking in the hard drive formatting section. in the drop down box, i noticed Apple. does that mean that i could format the rest of my hard drive to be OSX compliant?
View 3 Replies View RelatedRight clicking on a drive will format the drive but Disk Utility 2.30.1 included with Ubuntu 10.10 will not format the drive and says the drive is busy.
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