Having created a boot-able stick with the creator in 16.04, is there w ay with either 16.04 or17.10 to reformat the stick and get it back? DISKS in 16.04 returns an error ‘0’ when trying to delete partitions saying Ubuntu says it is 512 and Windows 1028. The stick was formatted NTFS before I made it boot-able for 17.10.
You might try using Gparted, the partition editor. Here is a link to an introduction - https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/ You’ll need to create a new msdos partition table on the bootable flash drive and then create a primary partition. Good luck xaire.
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try http://etcher.io
The way I generally go about it is open up Disks, select the USB drive, then go for "Format Disk" in the menu.
I generally completely erase all data (the slow option), but a quick format should do the trick too.
I usually choose the "No Partitioning" option, which leaves me free to write another image with etcher, or create a new partition table with a FAT32 partition using Gparted.
gparted. It is frustrating getting that error. @mdooley hit on the solution that works for me in this situation. Cheers.
Gparted is most probably very good in the right hands. I’l love to know
another way, even if it means using the unspeakable. [MS] I’ve plenty of
rich, MS convert friends who will help me out. I’m a retired programmer so
most [not current] lingo is OK.
Ray
Success. This is how I got my stick back after using it as a bootable
stick for 17.10, made with 16.04 [which which I could not use as it totally
messed up my CMOS by resetting the boot selection for UEFI instead of
legacy.
1 With Etcher (now in 17.10 Software Boutique, thank you). it’s opening
screen, middle item displays the name of the USB stick mounted, below which
was a boot choice ‘change’. (it detected that the stick had 3 partitions, 2
of which confused DISKS saying Ubuntu said 512 and MS Windows 2048 (I seem
to remember) the 17.10 image and another small one containing boot info,
and finally a partition with the unused space.
Before I used it as a bootable stick it was a single partition, NTFS
formatted (with DISKS), 32GB stick.
The Disk Creator in 16.04 was used to create the bootable stick.
I selected ‘change’ in ETCHER which removed all the partitions on the stick.
1 With DISKS (in 17.10) I was then able to partition (single 32GB) and
format NTFS.