Removing Chrome Flow from a USB device.
I recently tried one of Hexxeh's build of Chromium, Vanlla. Of, course it didn't work because of my Wireless card, so I tried to do the same fix that made Ubuntu worked, which was putting a file full of drivers in the /lib/firmware . It didn't, however, work in Chromium. Since nobody helped me on the forums (Here) I want to delete it from my USB. I don't know how though, because when I plug it into Ubuntu it shows it as 3 different devices, instead of one, and I don't know which one to format.
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What does fdisk say about it? Delete the partitions and then format would be my guess. Gparted might be fine too.
I have used a few of the live usb creators. Can't say why it seems to change the partition table so. In any case to return it you'd need to delete them all not select one. |
I'll try that. I would like to get it running and everything, but nobody was helping. I'll try that.
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When I tried GParted the first time, with the USB already in, it wouldn't run. Then I tried running it without it in yet, it wouldn't detect it, and now it won't mount the USB. I used Disk Utility to see it and it said there was 13 different partitions on the USB all of different types and sizes. Results of fdisk:
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jetso@Jetso-Inspiron-1525:~$ sudo fdisk -l |
You do know that you are looking at your installed hard drive and NOT just your usb.
" Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 229 1845265+ ee GPT Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: " sudo fdisk Then select your sdb. !!! be sure you know which drive you are on!!!! Then delete the partition. Then make a partition. Then format it. If you are unsure see this. http://nerdfortress.com/2009/04/30/r...m-a-usb-drive/ |
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you gotta dd the drive, then use Gparted
be very careful with dd too dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=1 so if usb is sdb1 you would put of=/dev/sdb not /dev/sdb1 that will completely wipe the usb then use Gparted and it will say you need to create a new msdos filesystem do that then format it fat32, set boot flag etc dont dd your hard drive! |
@tiredofbilkyyaforallican Sorry, I tend to be a little impatient.
Okay, so if the USB is sdb then I run Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 |
That is the way I would run it.and I too am sorry for my ill temper (just a bad day LOL)BTW we both run similar laptops .
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Nothing happened... :( Here's what happened:
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jetso@Jetso-Inspiron-1525:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 |
You have a guid setup on it. You have to fix that.
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And how do I do that? Sorry...
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See reply number 4.
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Oh! So your saying that I have to use Gparted to erase all the partitions, then format as FAT32? Gparted wouldn't load when I had the usb in, and when I unplugged it then started Gparted, my computer wouldn't see the USB...
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Hello? Any help? Sorry to be impatient, but I need the USB usable.
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