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Dealing with the 2 worst offenders, a usb stick and an SD card - I didn't see them in File Manager (and I chose show hidden files..) but I went on to gparted anyway... thanks for the mention of the drop menu in dear gparted, I hadn't seen that, they were there ok, one at a time, and now are both clean fat32! Success!One curious thing - in file manager>devices I see they show the full 16gb and 4gb - usually they'd be a bit less than the "nominal" capacity, should there be another small partition for some function?Anyway, thanks to all of you for sticking with me, and making me stick with it. Life on earth just got a little less expensive, I'll celebrate with a trip around the sun.
Thanks Moltke,I'll take a look at that possibility.The situation I'm dealing with - specifically trying to remove linux live osi, has anyone dealt with that and suceeded, as distinct from just a normal re-format?
I did try gparted on a few USBs and an SD, but none appeared in the list.
Thanks to all for the replies.I did try gparted on a few USBs and an SD, but none appeared in the list. I tried TMG's method and that did see the usb and SD which I tried. I got as far as "type 1 to select....." but the response was "could not delete partition". I'm not sure if what I tried previously using some utility or other on Windows hasn't scrambled things a bit.KPanic - what does the command 'sudo cat imagefile > /dev/sdc' do?
I have used USBs for a few linux installs - I failed previously to re-format these, ie to empty them and revert to FAT format. Re-formats usually "succeeded" but only showed a tiny free space, ie didn't effect the live ISO. It's a while ago but I think I tried the formatting on both LL and Win7.I want to try the 4.0 upgrade, I'm reluctant to use my last clean (32GB!! ) usb. Any suggestions please?