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actinide 05-14-2017 01:09 PM
Make usb fat32 again
 
How do you go about making a usb fat32. I installed Tails on some usbs and cannot seem to make the usb fat32 again or even make it bootable again.

beachboy2 05-14-2017 01:29 PM
actinide,

Run these commands to format the usb to fat32 file system from terminal:

Code:
sudo su

fdisk -l
This helps to discover your USB drive, which MAY be /dev/sdc1 (example only)

Then unmount the device:

Code:
umount /dev/sdc1
Format device to FAT32

Code:
mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sdc1

actinide 05-14-2017 01:49 PM
The option to make it bootable is not showing in disk utility.

actinide 05-14-2017 03:03 PM
Solved

hydrurga 05-14-2017 03:25 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by actinide (Post 5710637)
Solved
Solved how? Beachboy2's advice?

If so, can you mark his answer as helpful so that folk are made more aware that his answer was the solution.

ondoho 05-15-2017 03:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by actinide (Post 5710617)
make the usb fat32 again or even make it bootable again.
these are two different things.

and how can you boot from it if there's no OS on it?

fatmac 05-17-2017 03:00 PM
If by installed tails you dumped a disk image onto it, you created a CD image.

To get back to using it for files you have to put a new MBR on it, (with fdisk or similar), then create a new partition of type B or C, write that out to disk, then put a new file system onto it, mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/your-disk.


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