#CONVERT BOOTABLE USB TO NORMAL HOW TO#

In this example I used /dev/sdc for the name of the device which is what was found in the results of step 2. Now open the Disks application from the Dash and check again to make sure that the device name of your 8GB flash drive is the same as what you got from running the command: sudo fdisk -l.Д¬reate a partition table on the disk of type msdos, sometimes known as MBR or Master Boot Record.

If you see something like 7864 MB (8GB) in the output (see the example output above), then that is your 8GB USB flash drive. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Search the results of the command for output that looks like this: Disk /dev/sdc: 7864 MB, 7864320000 bytesДЈ0 heads, 33 sectors/track, 15515 cylinders, total 15360000 sectors Remove all of your USB devices except for the 8GB USB flash drive that you want to reformat, so you won't get confused about the device name of the USB flash drive later on. I reformatted 2 USB flash drives with the following steps after writing Ubuntu ISOs to them with dd The results of these steps are reproducible. The following commands are run from the terminal in Ubuntu.

#CONVERT BOOTABLE USB TO NORMAL HOW TO#

If you want to know how to reformat your 8GB flash drive from Windows 7, then ask how to do it on Superuser Q&A, not here.

Convert bootable usb to normal