Jan 20, 2011 · In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?

21 What is the best way to format a USB stick such that it can be used with both Linux and Windows 10? Also what is the best practice for formatting a USB stick? Is it best to format the USB stick only …

May 29, 2021 · Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop, but instead …

Closed 13 years ago. Possible Duplicate: How to format a USB flash drive? How do I clear everything (data, viruses) from a thumbdrive? How to format a pen drive in Ubuntu? I have this pen drive which I …

Jul 10, 2017 · When I format a drive to NTFS under Windows and plug it into the Ubuntu machine, it is perfectly usable. But when I format it under Ubuntu using Disks (delete all partitions and create one …

Aug 18, 2015 · I'm a total newbie in Linux specially Ubuntu, I'm just asking on how to format a USB using Ubuntu terminal. Hope you can help me thanks!

Oct 25, 2017 · Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted The drive is read-only: I do not mean that there is a read-only file system, but that the drive is readable but not …

Well, one could try zero'ing the raw block device to see if that can work. If you can write to that then you may be able to create a clean partition table, create a new partition and format that. Suppose the …

Sep 4, 2017 · Is the USB drive formatted with FAT32? That file system does not support files larger than 4GB. You have to format it differently then, e.g. as NTFS. Beware that formatting deletes all data on …

Aug 24, 2020 · I want to know how to make a full format of a storage drive from the terminal, How to delete byte by byte from the storage drive (without using quick format as traditional methods). Is this …