Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Sandisk Cruzer Pen Drive Wouldn't Format In Windows Vista

I decided to try out xbmcfreak-live on a usb pen drive. I'd previously installed Puppy Linux on the pen drive and it was formatted with ext3. Well, Windows Vista had a hissy fit when I went to format it. Kept getting an error that the media was write protected. So I booted up gparted live, selected the pen drive under device and formatted it to fat32. Problem solved.

Gparted live should be in everyone's toolkit:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

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