{"id":274,"date":"2023-10-04T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-10-04T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:28:17","slug":"reformatting-a-flash-drive-formatted-as-iso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/reformatting-a-flash-drive-formatted-as-iso\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformatting a flash drive formatted as ISO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Typically, when a flash drive is formatted from an ISO image, the flash drive will be formatted as an ISO9660 type and not want to be re-formatted or erased easily. Take a look at Gparted showing a flash drive below with the Linux Mint ISO on it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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When I attempt to delete the Partition in GParted, it is greyed out. If you try to format it, you will also get an error. The proper method is to use a command like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo dd status=progress if=\/dev\/zero of=\/dev\/sde bs=4k && sync<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is this takes forever to run and zero out the entire flash drive. What I do is probably considered some hillbilly method but it works and works fairly quickly. I only seem to need to use this method when I want to reformat a flash drive shown as an ISO format. I run the shred<\/strong> -v<\/strong> command and let it run for about 10% to 15% (Which takes only a couple of minutes typically). I then hit CTRL C to cancel the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Remove the flash drive and re-insert it. Now go into Gparted and create a partition table and format the flash drive any way you want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now I format the flash drive however I want. In this case, I formatted it as a Fat32.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Formatted to Fat32 and ready to be used.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Maybe I’ll post a more proper method later, but the above is down and really dirty but works quickly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Typically, when a flash drive is formatted from an ISO image, the flash drive will be formatted as an ISO9660 type and not want to be re-formatted or erased easily. Take a look at Gparted showing a flash drive below with the Linux Mint ISO on it. When I attempt to delete the Partition in\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}