remove backtrack 3 from USB stick

[bone.s]

Hi all,

I just tried to remove backtrack from my 2GB usb stick, How can I restore the MBR on the stick?

now, the empty stick only shows up 0.7GB ??

how I have to redo the backtrack usb installation?

...or is the stick now for ever destroyed (to 0.7GB)

thanks for hints, help and answers...

bone.s

[xorred]

the stick is forever destroyed - once Black Track has been on it, it's over. As you may have heard... "Once you go black, you can never go back!"

(just coudn't hold it)

[spidercatbug]

There may be a way download HP USB Stick Formatting Tool which will alow you to repartion the usb stick

[Virchanza]

OK so you've removed Backtrack from your USB stick.

So what's on your USB stick now? Is there an operating system on it?

You only need play around with the Master Boot Record if you plan on booting off the drive.

Otherwise just blank the entire drive out, create one large partition (e.g. a FAT32 partition), format the partition, and then copy your pr0n or music or whatever over onto it.

To create one large partition, use "fdisk" and type "m" to get a list of commands. First delete all the partitions using the "d" command, then add a partition by choosing "n".

To format the partition, use:

mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdb1

Then just mount it and copy your stuff across:

su root
cd /mnt
mkdir sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 sdb1
cd sdb1
cp /home/barack_obama/pr0n ./
cp /home/barack_obama/music ./

[matcat]

Wouldn't just reformatting the usb stick work?

[bone.s]

Thanks a lot,

Firstly I tried to format it with the comand included in the context menu of the windows explorer.
Not very successful...

Finaly the HP tool worked (first try)

thanks

[Barry]

Originally Posted by matcat

Wouldn't just reformatting the usb stick work?

Windows has issues with thumb drives that have grub on them. I just use my Mac, or a linux machine to repartition them.