Help restoring usb stick

[telocity]

Hi, new to BSD. Just received a used laptop and thought to see if PC-bsd might work well on it. So followed the instructions to make a usb-boot drive. It worked and got to installation page. However install failed on laptop. So I thought well I will just return usb stick back to ntfs with my windoze machine. Nope, it sees 7GB+ of unknown, but will not touch it.

I would like to use the stick again. Is there anyway with windoze or linux to undo whatever was done to the usb stick? I used Win32DiskImager on win7 to put PC-bsd 8.2 img on stick.

If not there should be a clear warning about using a usb thumb drive to install PC-bsd. The thumb drive was only $12, but I seriously am counting every dollar nowadays. Any help would be appreciated. I did a search on google, but have found nothing relevant. perhaps I'm not using the right search words.

:confused:

[Cobalt]

Use the Ubuntu live CD and gparted (in a terminal) to format it to NTFS.

[Cobalt]

You'll probably need to be root to mess with partitions, so in a terminal, it'd be: sudo gparted

By the way, you can use other methods to install PC-BSD, like using a USB disc drive or using an external USB hard drive connector.

[telocity]

Thank you for quick replies

I found micro sd card that I had not used for some time (little slow) and managed to put ubuntu onto it. It installed clean onto laptop and before drifting of to sleep last night I installed gparted and it did a fine job of formating usb stick.

Should have done that first before posting here.

Now all I have to figure out is how to get ubuntu to recognize the broadcom bluetooth that is built into acer aspire laptop. Which is why I tried PC-bsd in hopes it would either recognize it or have a package that would.

Well thx again! and I guess this thread can be closed. :)

[kmoore134]

BTW, you can always use "newfs_msdosfs" /dev/da0 (or whatever device
name) to reformat it to FAT.