flash drive reformatting

[Graham Watkins]

On 01/05/10 15:03, 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
>
>    
I dunno about gparted - I'd use fdisk.

There's some pretty clear info about removing and creating partitions on 
a flash drive here.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ubuntu-810-persistent-flash-drive-install-from-live-cd/

Though you will only need to create the one FAT16 partition.

Cheers,

Graham