Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-09 Thread Dazed_75
And if all that fails, try just having windows format it. Give it the name you want on the format dialog and DO NOT use quick format. I don't know what it is but Windows does something in the format that the Linix utilities do not. I've gotten at least two rives back that way. On Sun, Aug 8,

Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-09 Thread joe
Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com And if all that fails, try just having windows format it. Give it the name you want on the format dialog and DO NOT use quick format. I don't know what it is but Windows does something in the format that the Linux utilities do not. I don't use M-$haft. Surely

Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-09 Thread Dazed_75
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:45 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com And if all that fails, try just having windows format it. Give it the name you want on the format dialog and DO NOT use quick format. I don't know what it is but Windows does something in the

How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread joe
How can I rename and format my cruzer 2-gig flash drive so I can install a live distro? Searching the 'net, I found pendrivelinux.com which offered a Universal pen drive installer. When tried to use it, it couldn't see my flash drive. I then found the instructions shown below to Restore a USB

Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread joe
So, how can I rename this flash drive back to sdf and reformat it so I can use it to install a Linux live iso? After further searching the 'net, I did find a way to format the flash drive by using gparted. But I still don't know how to set the name of the drive to 'sdf' instead of 'sdb1' ...

Re: How to rename and format a flash drive?

2010-08-08 Thread Stephen
try this one. It will fully format your drive at the same time as it copies over your distro, whichever you want http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I have used the windows version several times with great success. and used the Linux version once. (worked) On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM,