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23 questions linked to/from How to format a USB or external drive?
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Format USB drive using mformat? [duplicate]
I have tried many different things to try to format my USB drive, but none of them work... how might I do this using the mformat commands? thanks!
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How to format a USB or external drive in 13.04? [duplicate]
I am using Kubuntu 13.04. How to format a USB or external drive?
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I cannot format my flash usb stick - newby user [duplicate]
I have the latest edition of ubuntu, formated my pc 1 week ago.
I Right clicked on the USB flash partition and I sow the format option. It is not grayed out, I do the format, it shows no files when I ...
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Huge loss of memory from USB boot. Any help? [duplicate]
I have successfully installed Ubuntu 13 on my laptop using an 4Gb USB drive with a bootable .ISO
However I went to try and format the USB on my desktop(Windows 7 :( ) and now it only has 700Mb
Is ...
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Formating a USB stick with ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
I know there's a few relevant questions answered but when I try to format it through disk utility the only answer I get is:
"Error synchrinizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (...
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Moving data files from SSD to HDD, Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
My setup:
Ubuntu 16.04
SSD with 256 GB of space
HDD with 2 TB of space
My SSD is filling up with saved numpy arrays from all my Python code. I am hoping to move those data files onto my HDD to clear ...
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How do I format an external hard drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to format a USB or external drive?
I have an external hard drive formatted to ext2 and have no permissions. Can't add files, and I can't look at the file that's on there.
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How to format an external drive to ext4 in Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 13.04 the Disk Utility has been renamed to Disks and has a completely new interface. Using this new version of Disks I want to format my external hard drive to ext4, but the answers to this ...
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How do I format an usb to ext4 to use it on Ubuntu without without sudo permisions? [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu in a machine I own and in a machine I only have standard user permissions ( not admin). Is there any way to format a usb to ext4 and make it work (file ownership problems) if I cannot run ...
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How do I clear everything (data, viruses) from a thumbdrive?
Say I used some thumbdrive on a public Windows computer and I copy some data to my Ubuntu computer with it. I cannot be completely sure that the Windows computer was clean, and it might have put ...
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How to know when formatting disk has finsihed - Ubuntu 16.04?
I have external hard drive which is 300GB. I set it to format to NTFS. Well there wasn't FAT32 in the list, though I know on Windows it asks me to set FAT32 because it has large capacity.
It started ...
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USB drive not recognized after Erase Disk
I was trying to create a bootable USB to install Lubuntu using Startup Disk Creator and I accidentally tapped on the "Erase Disk" option.
Now Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't seem to read my USB drive anymore. I ...
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How to run Gnome disk utility
The Gnome disk utility is installed but there seems to be no way of running it. There is nothing on the sidebar or the desktop. How do I run it?
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How can I format my USB drive in Lubuntu?
I have created a bootable USB drive to install Lubuntu. Now I would like to format the drive so I can use it normally. How can I do that?
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What's the difference between USB, UUID, Disk identifier and Vendor ID?
I need a persistent, unique identifier of a USB drive that never changes, to make a mount point folder.
Can you explain the difference between Disk Identifier, Vendor ID and UUID?
Can you also advise ...
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Wipe usb flash drive ubuntu
I have made a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu installer and now I can't delete Ubuntu from it. I tried to use GParted and erased the partition table, made a new ms-dos partition table and formatted the ...
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I can't format disk in USB floppy drive
I need to low-level format floppies with an external usb floppy drive in ubuntu 10.04 (or later) server.
I have tried the tools that come with util-linux-ng, and contain (specifically) fdformat.
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ISO writing to USB doesn't seem to work, how come?
I've been trying several times to burn an ISO file to my USB, even with Unetbootin, on Ubuntu it doesn't seem to work at all, how come when I download the software that it suggests me to use, and it ...
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Backspace key is not working In Ubuntu 13.04
The backspace key is not working. And How I can Format of USB Drive in 13.04.
Thank You Ubuntu Developer Team for Making Beautiful OS.
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Format usb drive ( remove windows .exe virus)
I tried to format the drive using disk utility and following the steps given in the link below:
Visit How to format a USB or external drive?
But unfortunately this error keeps popping up every time ...
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USB permission error after formatting
Since I formatted my USB flash drive I can't access it. I get the error:
only system administrators have the permission to do this
I am new to Lubuntu 16.04.
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USB Flash Drive not Detected on 12.10 x64
My Mediatek usb flash drive is not get detected.
The o/p of lsusb
falguni@falguni-M61PME-S2P:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0e8d:0003 MediaTek Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation ...
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Error in transfer data to a pen usb
when i try to transfer data to a pen usb in ubuntu 12.04, the system give me error. The pen is formated in fat32. sorry the english and thank you for any help.
