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I'm having trouble formatting my 16GB USB stick. I've gone through most of the previous questions on this topic, but I'm not able to do it. Badblocks showed no error, Gparted is unable to create partition table, and the Disks tool showing unallocated space in front of Contents.

I just want to format it as I have no important data in it.

metalhead
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    Is there any error that gparted is giving when you try to create a partition? Feel free to add screenshots and text of things that you have tried. More details would help us help you figure out why you can't format your USB drive. – Terrance Feb 01 '20 at 21:17
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  • I had to delete the comment considering this "family friendly site". – metalhead Feb 03 '20 at 08:11

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I had the same problem. Do a search for using the non-graphical parted command for the task. I will not repeat the steps here, as you can easily find it. Basically, you put a partition on the drive followed by a file system. Then using the chmod command, give read and write permissions to the drive.

AlexP
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