[SOLVED] Make usb fat32 again

actinide · 05-14-2017, 01:09 PM

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

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

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.