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I want to know what is the "user friendly" solution for formatting a pendrive and do not loosing every pendrive you format with any Ubuntu (v12 onwards). Now, I have Ubuntu 16 and I just loose my pendrive and I need to look for someone using Windows for making it right. I used the "disks" tool, unmounting the unit, formatting it to ntfs. After doing it, I can not wtite on the pendrive anymore (except if I format it with Windows). SO, what is the big change? What should I do? I also tryed to format it with gparted, but I have the same result.

Please, people, this should be something easy to do, and it is not for me :(

gal007
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Restore to a standard storage device

If you want to format the pendrive to the standard, the MSDOS partition table and one partition with the FAT32 file system, you can install mkusb according to this link,

help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb

sudo add-apt-repository universe  # only for standard Ubuntu in live mode

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa  # and press Enter
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mkusb mkusb-nox usb-pack-efi

and 'Restore to a standard storage device' according to this link,

help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/wipe

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Something more advanced

If you want something more advanced, for example a file system, that can manage files bigger than 4 GB, have a look at the following link,

How do I copy a file larger than 4GB to a USB flash drive?

Creating an NTFS file system

You want an easy method to create an NTFS file system (not FAT32). Maybe the following alternatives in Ubuntu will be easy enough to compete with Windows.

  • gparted has an intuitive graphical user interface, that makes it easy to create a partition table and a partition with NTFS. It is bundled with Ubuntu live, but is stripped from the installed system, you have to install it with

    sudo apt install gparted

  • The classic interface of mkusb, mkusb-11, where there is an alternative for NTFS in the wipe menu.

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If problems with automatic mounting

If you have problems with automatic mounting, you can try manually according to this link,

How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?

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