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I have created live usb drive for ubuntu 8.04.The contents of the drive have been accidentally deleted. Now i want the drive to be useful for general purpose.Please help me ...
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    formatting live usb drive

    I have created live usb drive for ubuntu 8.04.The contents of the drive have been accidentally deleted. Now i want the drive to be useful for general purpose.Please help me in this context.Thanks in advance

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    hi

    Run

    #mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb --> Your USB disk

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    The Parted Magic LiveCD works well and is very easy to use for formatting drives, as well.
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