HOW TO FORMAT A PEN DRIVE ????

Install Gparted

BE VERY CAREFUL WITH IT! Make absolutely certain you are formatting your pen drive and not your hard drive.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Thanks arochester, that solved my question.

Brilliant, nicely done :)))

hi i can format all of my drives except my pen drive. hope its due to its format as fat32.i can see but i cant format that drive. how to do that. thank you.
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hi i can format all of my drives except my pen drive. hope its due to its format as fat32.i can see but i cant format that drive. how to do that. thank you.
:-)

If it's in and mounted use the down arrow on the top right to change selected drive. You should see it there...

ya i have selected the appropriate one. but i cant format that one. the format options are disabled. how to format then???

Click on the top graphic so that it gets a yellow and green edge to it. You have chosen it. Now format.

ya it turned green. but delete and format to options are desabled. so how to format it?

...Mine works I've tried it twice this morning...

So you did start Gparted from a Terminal with sudo? Using the command: gksudo gparted

Then Partition>Format to

no yaar. still that format to option is disabled....what to do next?????

Also if the drive is already shown as having a green box rather than empty grey space then the Pen-Drive is already formatted to a Windows format. This is fine for Ubuntu which can read both Windows and linux formats. Windows can only read Windows formats, it can't easily read Linux formats so it's better to keep the Pen-Drive's Windows format. No need to change it :)

Regards again from
Tom :)

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

Hi :)

Are you sure that fixed the problem? Sometimes Launchpad is a bit tricky and people accidentally click on the wrong button. Did you find your files that are on the Pen-drive?

Regards from
Tom :)

i suspected some virus in that while using in windows. thats why i want to format that. but now i have removed all the files in pen drive through ubuntu. because i am in need to put an usb start up disc. thats why. any how i have installed ubuntu in my sisters pc via the same pen drive.........
any how, thanks Tom.
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Brilliant :))) Nicely done :))
Sadly linux is so unaffected by Windows viruses that it is just as easy to move an infected file wih Ubuntu as an un-infected one so you might want to scan those files using ClamAv and ClamTk
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus

Here's a guide on installing things (such as ClamAv & ClamTk) in Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

A general guide worth quickly looking up odd things here and there (no need to read all the way through, it's too long for that)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Another guide but this time for working throuh each step. Note that CtrlV doesn't work in a command-line but right-click paste on the mouse does work
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
i always work through this on evey fresh install of ubuntu and also on older installs if any multimedia isn't working properly. I tend to use proprietary stuff and so far haven't been asked to pay anything. Hopefully i will be able to go compleetely OpenSource one day.

A guide for getting to a command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal

Welcome to linux-land, especially the Ubuntu corner of it :)))
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)