flash drive reformatting

[Basil Chupin]

On 02/05/10 00:03, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I have 9.1 on a usb flash.  Is there any reason I can not just
> reformat with gparted and use if for other purposes.  My wife deleted
> an operating system from a usb device using windows and we never could
> use that portion again so this makes me wonder what caused it.
>
> thanks
>
> gary
>    

None at all. I have reformatted my USB memory sticks a number of times - 
in ext3, vfat.

BC



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