How to rename and format a flash drive?

[Dazed_75]

And if all that fails, try just having windows format it.  Give it the name
you want on the format dialog and DO NOT use quick format.  I don't know
what it is but Windows does something in the format that the Linix utilities
do not.  I've gotten at least two rives back that way.

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> try this one. It will fully format your drive at the same time as it
> copies over your distro, whichever you want
>
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>
> I have used the windows version several times with great success. and
> used the Linux version once. (worked)
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can I rename and format my cruzer 2-gig flash drive so I can install
> a
> > live distro?
> >
> > Searching the 'net, I found pendrivelinux.com which offered a
> "Universal"
> > pen drive installer. When tried to use it, it couldn't see my flash
> drive.
> > I then found the instructions shown below to "Restore a USB Key to it's
> > original state."
> >
> > All seemed to work well, until step #7: "umount /dev/sdx" ... fdisk
> > originally identified my flash drive by the name: sdf ... but after step
> > #7 did not work, the installer said that I should reboot the computer so
> > the flash drive would be recognized.  When I did that, the flash drive
> > then showed up as sdb1 (which didn't seem right) and the system now sees
> > it as a "DVD" drive and I can't do anything with it.
> >
> > So, how can I rename this flash drive back to "sdf" and reformat it so I
> > can use it to install a Linux live iso?
> >
> >   www.pendrivelinux.com/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/
> > To restore a flash pen drive to it's original state.
> > A. First delete the old partitions that remain on the USB key.
> >  1. Open a terminal and type sudo su
> >  2. Type fdisk -l and note your USB drive letter.
> >  3. Type fdisk /dev/sdx (replacing x with your drive letter)
> >  4. Type d to delete a partition
> >  5. Type 1 to select the 1st partition and press enter
> >  6. Type d to delete another partition (fdisk will select the second)
> >
> > B. Next we need to create the new partition.
> >  1. Type n to make a new partition
> >  2. Type p to make this partition primary and press enter
> >  3. Type 1 to make this the first partition and then press enter
> >  4. Press enter to accept the default first cylinder
> >  5. Press enter again to accept the default last cylinder
> >  6. Type w to write the new partition information to the USB key
> >
> > *** everything from this point on did not work ***
> >
> >  7. Type umount /dev/sdx (replacing x with your drive letter)
> >
> > C. Last step: create the fat filesystem.
> >  1. Type mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdx1 replace x with your USB key drive ltr
> >
> > You now have a restored USB key with a single fat 16 partition.
> >
> > *** And the flash drive is useless at this point. ***
> >
> >
> >
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