On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick M. <off_b...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello; > I had a friend come over with a USB stick. > I had put Mint linux on his laptop, and now he could not write to the > stick. > > I realized it was a Sandisk with their stupid U3.exe stuff on it. > I went through this last year and used a Windows program to remove the U3 > stuff and reformat it. > > Is there any way to do this in Linux? > > I remember I used fdisk to make it ext2, and formatted it. > It still would not work. >
You could use parted <device>, where <device> is probably /dev/sdb Remove all the partitions, then re-create one as FAT32 if you want to be able to read it with a windows system, otherwise ext2. I just did this with a USB flashdrive that had an extra software partition. -- Dale Dellutri
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