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You can see all the parameters and what they do by typing,Īll I need is to specify the File System and for these larger USB flash drives, set an Allocation unit size, and make it a "quick" format. You'll want to elevate it to run as Admin, so right click and choose "Run as Administrator". It's actually very easy to format a drive yourself! Open a command prompt window - I have Windows 10, so press Start, then type CMD. And I certainly don't want to pay for something that my PC can already do.

Personally, I just don't trust what an EXE file I find online could potentially do to my computer. Now that we have Sentry Mode on all the time (except when we're home!) and, since I like to save clips especially on beautiful days - I'm saving clips from our neighborhood through all the seasons) - my 16 GB drive filled too quickly. Refer to the following message from Ubuntu's mailing list if you want to learn more.Hello! I tried to find a "how to" post on formatting large capacity flash drives but I can only find links to external utilities or programs to purchase. Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.Īll these warnings are safe to ignore, and your drive should be able to boot without any problems. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. Is this a GPT partition table? Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. dev/xxx contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.Ī consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as: