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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coolmanaram" data-source="post: 21993101" data-attributes="member: 362420"><p style="text-align: left"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Use linux terminal to format drive. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">                                                                                                   It will work even if the usb is write protected. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In Ubuntu there are many methods by which you can format your pendrive </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>1 - by Disk utility</strong>  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p47CLgRd6Y&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">see the video</a>   // simplest way</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>2-  by Gparted tool</strong>   <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloEDkHHkAs&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">see the video</a></span></span> </p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">// you can install it from Ubuntu software center or  you can install is by typing </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>sudo apt-get install gparted</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong></strong></span>  </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>3- by using Terminal</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6TEh762Vec" target="_blank">see the video</a></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">go to super mode by typing "su" followed by super mode password</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>fdisk -l</strong></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">that will show all the volume in your pc or you can also use the </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>df</strong></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">to see the usb flash drive, suppose it may be /dev/sdb1</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>umount /dev/sdb1</strong></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">that un mount the drive</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1</strong></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">to format drive into fat32 format</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><u><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>EDIT</strong></span></span></u></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">mkfs.vfat -n 'name_for_your_pendrive' -I /dev/sdb1</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px">to add name for your pendrive</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left">     </p> <p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>

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