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I am giving a workshop in early April. I would like to give each participant a memory stick with the PowerPoint slides and some freeware software relative to the topic of the workshop. I was given a large quantity of memory sticks to "recycle" (I'm on a strict budget--everything comes out of my own pocket) that have an obsolete version of the DigSafe manual. The partition containing the document shows as a CD drive when I insert one into a computer.

How can I reformat these devices to remove the "CD" partition? I did find an old thread suggesting using dd and fdisk to format this type of device. Will that work in my case?

(It's not the end of the world if I can't -- my poor audience will just have to suffer with receiving the requirements of Dig Safe. Hi Hi).

Bob Harris
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I would use GParted for this, but be careful so you don't click on the wrong drive and format and erase the wrong drive, such as your Ubuntu installation, or some other drive with a bunch of valuable data. You might want to disconnect any extra drives from your system before you do this.

You can install GParted by typing this in a terminal:

sudo apt install gparted
SunnyDaze
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