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 …

Feb 5, 2012 · To turn off disk device`s write protect, we use the low level system utility hdparm like this: sudo apt-get install hdparm sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb where we asume that /dev/sdb is the Physical …

Feb 7, 2025 · Select the USB Drive from the left panel. Warning: All the data in the selected disk will be erased permanently. If you select the wrong disk, you may lose important data or everything in your …

Jan 27, 2023 · I have a USB stick that is formatted as FAT32. I want to format it as EXT4 but I cannot do that from Windows despite following the advice. As the usb stick is formatted in FAT32 I can't see it …