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How to format usb drive
Name: rayray705 Date: January 16, 2006 at 19:58:25 Pacific OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: 2.8ghz/512mb
Comment:
Hi, I formated a usb flash drive to use as my home directory with knoppix live cd. How do I format it in fat so I can use it with windows again? Thanks in advance.
Name: rayray705 Date: January 16, 2006 at 20:13:35 Pacific
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I apologize for this uneccessay post. XP wasn't recognizing the usb drive for a while but when it did I was able to reformat. Again, I apologize for this uneccessary post.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: January 17, 2006 at 09:08:29 Pacific
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FYI If your USB device was picked up as /dev/sda then you could format it to FAT32 with: # mkdosfs /dev/sda1
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Response Number 3
Name: Giro Timussi (by aaabbb) Date: January 24, 2006 at 13:44:36 Pacific
Summary: Hi, right now, on my second hd, I have it formatted as fat32, but now I want to format it as ext3.. Can anyone tell me how to destroy current partition, and re-format with ext3? I've tried mke2fs -j /...
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