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title: My USB drive is broken! Plz helppppp :(
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If you just flashed your USB drive and you see one of the notifications above, your USB drive **IS NOT BROKEN**.
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There is litterally **no way** EtchDroid can break your USB drive.
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# What does that message actually mean
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Most images you'll want to flash with EtchDroid will have a somewhat *weird* format. For example, take an Ubuntu image: that image is specifically made to boot both from a USB drive and a DVD.
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This means that the resulting USB drive's file system will be marked as read-only.
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Android complains about it because it expects a writable file system. Not finding any, one of these errors will show up telling you how to format it.
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Simply unplug the USB drive and plug it into a computer. If the image you provided is valid and EtchDroid was able to write it, it should work just fine.
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# How to format the USB drive
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Once you're done with the image you've written you may want to format it with a regular file system. This will allow you to use the USB drive to store regular files once again.
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## On Android
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1. Close EtchDroid, plug your USB drive.
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1. Tap the "Unsupported USB Drive" or "Issues with USB drive" notification.
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If it does not show up:
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1. Open Settings
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1. Find "Storage"
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1. Tap the name of the USB drive
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1. If the file explorer opens, tap the menu button, "Storage settings", "Format"
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1. Tap "Format USB drive"
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Remember to eject the USB drive from settings before unplugging it.
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## On Ubuntu
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This should work for regular Ubuntu with GNOME or Unity and with other GNU/Linux distributions with GNOME. If you have a different desktop environment, please refer to your distribution's documentation.
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1. Open the Activities dashboard
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1. Type "disk" and open "Disks" or "Disk Utility"
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1. Select your USB drive from the left sidebar
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1. From the overflow menu on the upper right, select "Format Disk..."
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1. Use default settings, then confirm
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1. Under "Volumes", select "Free space", then click the "+" button
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1. Use maximum size, then go to the next page
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1. Enter a name for your USB drive, under type select "For use with all systems and device"
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1. Click "Create" and confirm
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## On macOS
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**Note:** I don't use macOS so instructions below may not be accurate.
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1. Open the Disk utility
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1. Select your USB drive
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1. There should be an "Erase drive" button somewhere
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1. You should find an option to format it with a "FAT" file system
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### or
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You can use "SD Memory Formatter" (even though you're not using an SD card, it will work on a USB drive too):
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https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
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## On Windows
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Use "SD Memory Formatter" (even though you're not using an SD card, it will work on a USB drive too):
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https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
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