I'm new to Linux, currently using Kubuntu and trying to switch to Solus. So, I was trying to format the usb stick I used as a bootable pendrive to install Kubuntu, but I can't seem to recover my 8GBs. I've tried the KDE partition manager and GParted, but there is no direct mention of "Format" anywhere in both. I've mounted and unmounted the drive several times, tried to create a partition, GPT, MSDOS, ext4, FAT32, etc.  FYI, I created the bootable pendrive using Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator. I don't understand how this works but I think there is a section of the drive that this program reserved that I can't access in any way. Or can I? If yes, how?
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i started installing ubuntu and took out windows 10 completely during the installation.. but after the installation, when i checked my disk partitions  927gb on linux filesystem 3 gb on linux swap 512 mb on efi  but my hard disk size is 1tb (1024gb so now rest 94 gb is missing  can anyone help me out. i tried if the windows 10 is still existing on the disk, but i didnt get any method  and while booting the system i get a message on the top left corner  /dev/sda2: clean,223062/60760064 files, 5079494/243030464 blocks ... so does this mean.
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I need to format a drive containing an old install of Ubuntu 10.04, to install Vista (not my idea!) Vista setup apparently refuses to format non-FAT32 or NTFS partitions. However, I can't seem to format it from my live CD (Ubuntu 11.04) at all; I keep getting "device is busy" errors. What is the simplest way to format this drive?
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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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When I go to Gparted and try to format my pendrive to exfat,the option is greyed out and I am not able to select it however I can choose other file systems such as ext4,ntfs,etc.  Why is that ?
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Just wait a minute before flagging this as off-topic. I can't believe this is not Ubuntu-related since everything happened just after my Ubuntu installation.  With this said I'll go on explaining what is happening:  I downloaded and installed the latest version of Ubuntu. I wanted a BIOS mode since I prefer this way and completed the installation process. Then I installed GNOME and rebooted. I lost access to my bios after all of this.  This is not the first time that has happened. It happened in the past and I solved switching boot partition in boot-repair using my secondary HDD but now I can't do that any more because I do not have a Windows partition on that drive.  This is my drive:  Disk /dev/sdb: 119,2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 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: 0xcaa3841c  Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type /dev/sdb1  *     2048 250068991 250066944 119,2G 83 Linux   When I tried boot-repair, at the end of the process it said I had to make a 500mb partition at the beginning of the partition list so that grub could work properly but hey, here's another problem:  GParted stopped working. This is the error if I try to launch it:  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/mnt-Archive.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/mnt-Linux\x20Games.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null. /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/mnt-Archive.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/mnt-Linux\x20Games.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.   I want to mention that:   yes I'm sure I'm using the right button to enter the bios no there is no bios splash screen no, nothing happens if I spam the DEL key to enter the bios yes the key works fine yes I tried to unplug every drive yes I tried to reset CMOS yes I installed the OS in BIOS mode, I checked via terminal.   This is the output from boot-repair     This is the message alert saying that I need to make a partition to properly boot:      The boot files of [The OS now in use - Ubuntu 17.04] are far from the start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them. You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the disk). This can be performed via tools such as gParted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of [Boot Repair]. ()
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I have a formatted 55GB partition as NTFS, the other part of the hard disk has Windows 7.  Is NTFS the right format for Ubuntu? If not how should I format it and with what format?  Once I finish preparing the partition, how do I install Ubuntu on that partition? I'm not sure how to set up dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows.
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I have a 2 GB HP flash drive, when  I right click and select the format option , I get a warning dialogue that says       Windows was unable to complete the format   How do I format a flash drive?
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I have a 32 GB USB stick. I was in Mac (VMWare) putting some stuff on. Then accidentally removed the drive. I put it back in, and wanted to format it. Using disk utility, I chose 1 partition, it automatically filled in 312 GB and I just clicked format or whatever. It didn't take long, then I could see the progress bar hanging at "Waiting for device to reconnect". Nothing happened for a while so I ejected it. Now comes the problem:  In Disk Utility (Mac): No sign of the USB drive.  In Paragon Partition Manager (Windows): No sign of the USB drive.  In Disk Manager (Windows): I can see that it's there. But it says: Disk 1 Removable (D:) No Media. When I right click it, I can only assign drive letters to it. No way to format.  In diskpart (Windows): diskpart list will show me the following: Disk 1, Status: No Media, Total Size: 0 B. When I eject the drive, the disk 1 will disappear. So I know that it's this drive. If I type clean, it will say that "There is no media in the device".  In HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.25 (Windows): Doesn't detect it at all.  In Device Manager (Windows): It is detected as USB Mass Storage Device.  In Gparted (Linux): Doesn't detect it.  In HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8 (Windows): It detects device as: "GENERIC USB Mass Storage 1.00 (0 MB) (D:)". When I press Start it gives me this error: "There is no media in the specified device"  In BIOS: Detected  In Spinrite (Live Boot): Doesn't detect it  Any help is appreciated.
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I have a USB drive formatted with NTFS. I would like to use "compress contents to save disk space" option, although it is greyed out.    It works fine on the C: drive. Any suggestions?
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after a powr failure when upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 I have a completely deficient system. It is read only and despite many attempts I failed to remount it read write, fsck and mount -o rmount, rw don't work, recovery mode does not work. I am not experienced with linux and under time pressure because have to write a paper until tomorrow and have only this computer.  Thus I thought it was best to reinstall. I have downloaded the iso on my usb stick on another computer. However, I can't us my startup disk creator as my usb stick is not being recognized as the filesystem is read only. I don't have a bootable usb or disk around (I know that's stupid) and I have no one using linux nearby who could help me create the stick. They all have windows.  Thus my question: Can I create a bootable usb on a windows system but to install on a computer which has Ubuntu on it? The wuby client you can download for windows on the ubuntu site is .exe so it would be no use on a computer that has only linux on it?
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This is what I got while trying to format a partition in my pendrive:     Error deleting partition /dev/sdb1: Command-line parted --script "/dev/sdb" "rm 1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Warning: /dev/sdb contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table.  However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should.  Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables.  Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table.  Is this a GPT partition table?      Error: Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt.  Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions.  (udisks-error-quark, 0)
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I have installed Ubuntu several times on my thumb drive. First times were on 8 GB thumb drives. I noticed I could not save anything as when I rebooted, it was all gone.  So, I got a 30 GB drive, tried installing again... and same thing.  Now I've found out I am running a LIVE version... not actually an installation.  So, for the somewhat novice who cannot do command-line installs,  step by step is there a way to install ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-i386.iso using, unetbootin-windows-585.exe to a 30 GB USB stick using my Windows 7 machine?
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I am looking at this:    I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was given. I can create the boot disk off of a Mac (in English) or Windows (but Windows is in Spanish and foreign to me).   Questions:     What format do I choose for the USB stick? (I wish the instructions stated this). What is Dash? (Will I know when I run the installer?) Can I do this from a Mac or Windows computer? Or only from Ubuntu?
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How do I format drive and unistall Ubuntu 11.10?  I wanted a dual boot and was given an option to overwrite Windows XP partition and said yes.  Format options don't work.  I tried a few dos prompts and probably not using correct fdisk.  Format options state drive is busy closed all windows.  Tried to boot windows XP and disk says its corrupt.
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Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation took less than a second and gave no warning. I tried erasing the flash drive and it took about a minute, but it took but a second to erase the 1 TB drive, which is very surprising.  Please help, Gabriel
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I inserted my friend's pendrive 15mins back and wanted to format it to free it of all trojans. Accidently I formatted my other drive (D:) and lost all data. My primary drive is still safe but I've lost all my precious data on that drive.   Is there a way to get it back? :(  Any help would be appreciated.   OS: Windows Vista
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I have installed bootable ubuntu on hard disks but now I can not format them with Disk Utility program. When I try to format it says "One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb" for both hard disks. Is there any way to format these drives?  EDIT: With "Disk Utility" program when I select one of the hard drives It shows 3 volumes;  99 MB FAT 111 GB EXT4 9 GB UNKNOWN   I can not format this unknown volume.  With Gparted program, It doesn't shows Unknown volume only shows 111GB EXT4.