<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <pre>On 28/04/12 22:25, David Fletcher wrote:</pre> <blockquote cite="mid:1335648330.2243.6.camel@ToshibaNB520" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">This was easy enough to do with Maverick. I've got a CF card plugged into a USB reader/writer that I want to format. The only application I can find that's supposed to do this is gnome-format but I can't get it to do anything, or even start up and show itself. How can I do this in 12.04 ? Dave </pre> </blockquote> <tt>The following is pasted from pendrivelinux.com. I've used this method before. Assuming that fdisk -l shows your card to be sdx, there's no reason why it shouldn't work for you. Restoring your USB key to it's original state using Linux: A. First we need to delete the old partitions that remain on the USB key. Open a terminal and type sudo su Type fdisk -l and note your USB drive letter. Type fdisk /dev/sdx (replacing x with your drive letter) Type d to proceed to delete a partition Type 1 to select the 1st partition and press enter Type d to proceed to delete another partition (fdisk should automatically select the second partition) B. Next we need to create the new partition. Type n to make a new partition Type p to make this partition primary and press enter Type 1 to make this the first partition and then press enter Press enter to accept the default first cylinder Press enter again to accept the default last cylinder Type w to write the new partition information to the USB key Type umount /dev/sdx1 (replacing x with your drive letter) C. The last step is to create the fat filesystem. Type mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdx1 (replacing x with your USB key drive letter) That's it, you should now have a restored USB key with a single fat 32 partition that can be read from any computer.</tt> <pre>It's always worked for me, </pre> <pre>Cheers, </pre> <pre>Graham </pre> </body> </html>