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How do I format a usb flash drive from within ubuntu?

Asked by Adrian Hume (UK)

Hi, got a USb flash drive that I loaded Googles chromeos onto as a bootable from flash drive os, but now want to reformat it so it's recognizable in windows xp as a normal flash drive but windows doesn't even see the drive now. Ubuntu does when I plug it in, so is there any way to format it with say ntfs or fat from within ubuntu?

many thanks

A linux complete newbie

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Best Pétur Ingi Egilsson (petur) said : 		#1

System-Administration->Disk Utility

From there you are able to delete the old partition and create a new one.

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Adrian Hume (UK) (ady-hume) said : 		#2

Thanks, all done and working now :)