I'm having trouble formatting my 16GB USB stick. I've gone through most of the previous questions on this topic, but I'm not able to do it. Badblocks showed no error, Gparted is unable to create partition table, and the Disks tool showing unallocated space in front of Contents.   I just want to format it as I have no important data in it.
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I have a MicroSD card in a USB adapter (which plugs into a USB port on my machine, and acts like a USB flash drive). I was using Unetbootin to make this a bootable USB flash drive with Kubuntu. But I needed to cancel while it was working. So I killed the Unetbootin process from the console.  Since then, I can't format the MicroSD or delete the folder that Kubuntu made. I have also tried mkdosfs, with no success. I can't mount the drive anymore either? What can I do to make this drive usable again?  Trying to create a new partition table in GParted, as described in Eliah Kagan's answer, does not work. It fails with the error message "imposible crear tabla de particiones" ("unable to create a partition table").
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I have a blank USB flash drive I want to put a new filesystem on. If I try adding a new partition it complains "No partition table found on device /dev/sdc". Creating a msdos partition table seems to work correctly, except that when I go to add a new partition it complains with the same error. What am I missing?
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So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys.  What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as well) to see....if I can get ANYTHING off the flash drive?  I've google'd around, but most of the stuff seems for windows.
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I'm using Xubuntu 13.04 from live usb.  I know that in order to be able to keep files/settings/etc after restart, USB live disk should be created with some storage reserved. However since I got this USB from a friend who created installation, I don't know if he reserved any space, and so my questions are:   How can I find out amount of space reserved (if any)? If no space is reserved, can I manually chose USB/HDD location to store my settings in order to be able to boot into them the next time I log on?   I'm currently running a very long session and it would help me if I could somehow be able to store my settings (firefox, apt-gets, xrandr screen conf. ... ) to not have to do it again after I reboot.  Thanks,  IR
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I am trying to grow my C: drive to use the unallocated space on Disk 0. Is it safe to throw away the Recovery Partition (i.e. make it unallocated)? And if so, is GParted an ok tool to do that with? Or do I need to move that, and if so, is the way to do that to reduce the size of the unallocated partition so there is empty space at the end, then move it there?
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After writing the FreeNAS IMG to a 16 GB USB flash drive, I can now only use 938 MB. I used the Win32 Disk Imager tool to write the IMG to the device. Then later, when I inserted the the USB drive into my Windows 7 computer it said that it had to be formatted, because it couldn't read it. I believe this is normal. So I formatted it inside Windows using the format option when prompted. So in Windows Explorer now, 938 MB is reported as capacity of this device.    Also, when i check the properties dialog box I can see the same numbers.    And when I check with diskmgmt.msc I can see there are several volumes I don't recognize and unallocated space of 12.79 GB.    Now, I have another 2 GB USB flash drive with the same problem. It too was used for FreeNAS, and it too has a reported capacity of only 938 MB. I thought it was broken there for a while, until I saw the same problem with this 16 GB model.  I tried using diskpart on the 2 GB model, and I saw that there were several partitions there (list partitions) just like on this one. So I used the clean option to try to wipe it, but that wiped off everything so it's totally useless now. I'm not sure how to rebuild it.  Is this a standard routine, like part of the whole "user experience", that whenever you make a bootable USB falsh drive with FreeNAS, it messes up your device? I am new to FreeNAS, so i wouldn't know. But it sure looks like it. Maybe it is in fact the format operation in Windows that messes things up... I don't know. It's not very nice.  How do I restore the capacity back to 16 GB-ish (14.9 GiB)?
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After upgrading to Windows 10, I remember that I had an old bootable recovery usb drive from the manufacturer that I no longer needed. I want to format it but it's showing up as a CD-ROM and format options are not available.  I also tried formatting it in a live linux mint environment, but linux cannot even mount the cd-rom.  How can I format this recovery usb that is showing up as a cd-rom?
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I can't format my pendrive (where ubuntu was loaded as live-usb) . Whenever I do , they say .  This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)  What to do ? I use Disks in Ubuntu 16.04
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I'm not even sure if i worded my question right but, I'm familiarizing myself with Ubuntu and want to install it on a new desktop I just finished putting together so I'm trying it on my laptop via live usb first.    I had trouble mounting my NTFS windows partitioned disks, solved that problem but I also see a disk that has the exact amount of memory I alloted for persistence. I try to access it but it shows the same ACL error I got when my NTFS disks weren't mounting.    I've already downloaded some stuff and made some things with LibreOffice and want to know if those things have been save automatically or if I have to mount the usb disk for it to be persistent.
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I have a USB drive that I accidentally partitioned when trying to put Ubuntu on it. It's a 16 GB Kingston flash drive but it is now split to two partitions, 7.30 GB each.  How do I combine the two partitions into one? I have tried Disk Management in Windows but no luck.
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So, basically I always format my removable mass storage devices as NTFS by default, but someone told me I was better off using exFAT. Now I've been looking around google, but can't find any good reasons why I should.  Is there anything that exFAT does (better) which NTFS doesn't which is useful when using it for (>4GB) removable mass storage?
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I have a USB flash drive which is no longer recognized by my computer. Windows Disk Management and DiskPart report No Media with no storage space (0 bytes) on the drive and I cannot partition or format the drive:     If the drive appears in Windows Explorer, trying to access it returns an error message indicating that there is no disk inserted, such as the following:     Please insert a disk into drive X:.   Various disk partitioning and data recovery utilities don't recognize the drive or only give a generic name for the drive and cannot access the contents of the drive.  What can I do? How do I recover data from the drive?     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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I recently purchased a 32GB USB 3 stick that was formatted FAT32.  I plugged it into my computer and attempted to copy a film onto it, the file was over 4GB however and it would not let me copy the file across because of the .  After some googling I found that I could format my USB stick to have an  format which would mean I could put files onto the stick greater than 4GB in size and the drive would work on both my Mac and my PC.  The problem with this solution is that my PS3 cannot detect the USB stick when it is formatted with exFAT.  I would like to know if there is a way I can have my USB stick formatted so it can have files greater than 4 GB and work on my PC, Mac and PS3.
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an HPG60 Laptop. I'm having a difficulty to install this coz I cant see the unallocated space I prepared in Windows.  As you can see on the attached screenshot:    I've prepared an unallocated space 96.72GB using Disk Management.  But when I boot up ubuntu and check Gparted,  I'm seeing this instead    An unallocated space of 1MB?!  Never encountered this before. I've installed ubuntu on a lenovo laptop that I use on office but I never like this before. Anybody have any idea why this is happening?
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So I am attempting to create a Windows 10 install USB on my MBP running macOS 10.14 Mojave. To create a bootable USB it needs to be formatted into FAT32, not exFAT. The issue is that when copying the .iso to the USB it fails because the file sources/install.wim is 4.4GB. I can't format as exFAT because I cannot boot from that format and I cannot use FAT32 because of the 4.4GB file. I used the command cp -rpv /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/* /Volumes/WINDOWS10/ after Boot Camp Assistant failed to create the  USB with a "Drive too small" error, even though it was a 16GB drive. When I wasn't paying attention, the cp completed and the installer booted, but failed with a missing: sources/install.wim error because the file can't be copied.  Is there any solution to this problem, or should I just burn a DVD with the installer on it?  EDIT: I forgot to specify that I was creating a USB for a PC, not a Mac. The Mac was just being used to create an install USB.  Heres the file:
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I resized the root partition with GParted, from 20 GB to 40 GB, but the filesystem still reports a size of 20 GB.  How can I use all 40 GB?    Update  The resized partition was an LVM Physical Volume (/dev/sda2), and the boot partition is ext4 (/dev/sda1).
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I have a USB device and i'm trying to create it in a way that it has 2 partitions: one for a live linux disc and the other for document storage.  I created the partitions using gparted and and set a boot flag to the one I want to use as the live disc. Now, I have a usb like this:  Disk /dev/sdc: 14.6 GiB, 15623782400 bytes, 30515200 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18  Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1       8439808 30515199 22075392 10.5G 83 Linux /dev/sdc2  *      51200  8439807  8388608    4G  b W95 FAT32   I then used dd to flash an Ubuntu iso to /dev/sdc2  sudo dd if=/dev/shm/ubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc2 bs=4M   When the disc is flashed onto the usb drive, I try to boot from my laptop and it shows "Operating system not found". When i try to use qemu/kvm, it shows a kernel panic like this:    How would I be able to do this properly?