I forgot to explain. If your flash drive was mounted, you need to unmount it before you wipefs/dd/mkfs.vfat. Just run: sudo umount /dev/sdX where /dev/sdX is your flash drive. PS. Thanks to Troy Turner, who commented about this below.
Thanks, it worked perfectly! Except for this: You forgot to say to unmount the USB drive in Disks program before entering terminal commands.. Took me a couple of minutes to figure out why I was getting error message. After unmounting USB drive, it worked.
Hi ALU, thank you so much for yet another life saving video. I used to face the usb drive problem every time after trying out a new distro. Your expert tips (both graphical and command line) will help many linux users for sure. The video thumbnail was very good too.
You can also wipe FS via Disks, just select the driver click on the overflow menu (3 vertical dots) and select format disk or CTRL + F on the selected disk. It would give a disk with no partition.
Tnx! after an hour of searching and watching all that Indian videos with cars in a background and bad english finally someone that explained it very simply and very fast!
This has fixed so many pendrives I have used for installing OS's and could never seem to use them again, but now I can. Thank you for your video it was nice and clear in restoring pendrives.
Great! After formatting flash drive from system file, it was freezing my boot when it was plugged in, but formatting it from terminal resolved this issue, thank you!
Thanks again, ALU! Your videos are always just what we need to keep our Linux boxes working well! If we were still doing stars, this would have been a five!
I've did what You recommend here and my Sandisk 32GB flashdrive shrinked to 28.6GB capacity. It was not possible to copy files greater than 4GB on it in Windows 7 in spite of the fact that the capacity was 28.6GB. It is better than not using it at all, that's true.
Fabulous tip! Thank you for sharing this. What an excellent way to reinstate all those little nuisance drives that went belly-up ... until now! Best wishes, Gino
Make sure you do: sudo umount /dev/sdb* then try repeating the wipefs command. This fixed this same error for me. (Make sure you input the correct name of YOUR drive /sdX)
Hi I dont know if you fixed this , if not, you may use sudo umount /dev/sdX1 sudo umount /dev/sdX2 sudo umount /dev/sdX3 then all partitions of the target disk should be not mounted
I congratulate you for this video, it's the best tuto i ever followed i tried the first method once it worked , and the scend one twice it worked too and was fast i didn't tried the third becuse i didn't had another usb to format it but i'm sure it would work , thank you so much i wish you much sucsse
Average Linux User: I am following your instructions, and i'm getting this: "probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy". This was just after i put in this command (sudo wipefs --all /dev/sdb) and typed in my password. I unmounted it and put in that command and got this: "probing initialization failed: No medium found". Help!
I have a bootable pen drive...which is not working in my android. Can u please tell me how to make it work as a normal pen drive. Please tell me the process of android terminal . i want to do this in android terminal.
my usb drive became slow when transfering files less than 1mbs I manage to format it to fat32 by following your first method and got /dev/sdc1 in my case note: my other usb drive which also fat32 transfer speed is 25mbs I wonder what happen
@@AverageLinuxUser EVEN AFTER 2 YEARS I STILL COME BACK TO YOUR VIDOES BECAUSE THEY ARE SO MUCH EXPLANATORY. H LIKE THE GOOD WORK YOUR SHARING.... CHEERS.
I forgot to explain. If your flash drive was mounted, you need to unmount it before you wipefs/dd/mkfs.vfat.
Just run:
sudo umount /dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX is your flash drive.
PS. Thanks to Troy Turner, who commented about this below.
and then before that climbed error
Love it
Average Linux User Awesome 👌 👌 👌 😍
still doesnt work i tried it before it worked now on ubuntu 18 does work and it ruins the flash usb giving the same eroor device busy or in use
@@Georgy_47 same problem with me
This is the most explicit comprehensive and clear tutorial for restoring an USB drive, that I ever found. Thank YOU!
Thanks, it worked perfectly!
Except for this: You forgot to say to unmount the USB drive in Disks program before entering terminal commands.. Took me a couple of minutes to figure out why I was getting error message. After unmounting USB drive, it worked.
Oh, Sorry. I missed that. It was not mounted at the beginning, but I mentioned that one has to unmount it for the dd command. Thanks for adding this.
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Same
Hi ALU, thank you so much for yet another life saving video. I used to face the usb drive problem every time after trying out a new distro. Your expert tips (both graphical and command line) will help many linux users for sure. The video thumbnail was very good too.
Hi panks103, Thank you very much :-)
Three frustrating nights of searching RUclips to clean my USB stick and this worked. Thanks much. I subscribed.
You can also wipe FS via Disks, just select the driver click on the overflow menu (3 vertical dots) and select format disk or CTRL + F on the selected disk. It would give a disk with no partition.
Thanks. I don't know what happens under the hood, but it seems to work.
Tnx! after an hour of searching and watching all that Indian videos with cars in a background and bad english finally someone that explained it very simply and very fast!
Indians speak better English than you all.
i was looking for this process for week, you saved me, blessing to you
thanks it worked ... I was trying this from 3 days ... and then finally I found this video .... thanks a lot
This has fixed so many pendrives I have used for installing OS's and could never seem to use them again, but now I can. Thank you for your video it was nice and clear in restoring pendrives.
Wipefs sometimes failed with errors like 'Device or resource busy that error before
Just unmount it
unmount your usb first
thank you so much bro
i can not find anything on the internet this helpful
Great!
After formatting flash drive from system file, it was freezing my boot when it was plugged in, but formatting it from terminal resolved this issue, thank you!
Thanks. This is just what I needed! Also, great video! Very clear and easy to understand.
Hi Jude. My pleasure 🙂
Thanks again, ALU! Your videos are always just what we need to keep our Linux boxes working well! If we were still doing stars, this would have been a five!
Thanks a lot. 5 starts is a lot 🙂
You saved my life and usb. Thanks a lot. I like these type of tutorials. Clear tutorial. Nice!
you save my day!!!!!! I was super worry because the pendrive was one of my friend's!!!
Thank you for this tutorial and all others. It was very usefull for me. I have fixed my USB, and now it works fine. Thank you.
I've did what You recommend here and my Sandisk 32GB flashdrive shrinked to 28.6GB capacity. It was not possible to copy files greater than 4GB on it in Windows 7 in spite of the fact that the capacity was 28.6GB. It is better than not using it at all, that's true.
Finally, big THX man, you've saved many USB devices! Btw: I was always returning to Windows because of THIS! THX again :) Greeting from Slovakia
["Thank you for the help."]
Thankyou. Very useful and very easy to understand.
Excellent video. You solved a long time problem for me.
Thank you! brought my 32gb flash drive to life :D
Thanks, saved my life!
Fabulous tip!
Thank you for sharing this.
What an excellent way to reinstate all those little nuisance drives that went belly-up ... until now!
Best wishes,
Gino
Lots of thanks for this tutorial.
Thanks, ALU! This was so helpful.
Worked exactly as needed. Thanks!
Thanks dude helps alot, tried solo it took me forever
Thank you for the tips!
sudo wipefs --all /dev/sdb
wipefs: error: /dev/sdb: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy can you tell me why?
Make sure you do:
sudo umount /dev/sdb*
then try repeating the wipefs command.
This fixed this same error for me. (Make sure you input the correct name of YOUR drive /sdX)
Hi I dont know if you fixed this , if not, you may use
sudo umount /dev/sdX1
sudo umount /dev/sdX2
sudo umount /dev/sdX3
then all partitions of the target disk should be not mounted
That happens when the drive or storage you are referring to is `mounted`. Go ahead and do `sudo umount /dev/sdb*`, and you should be good to go! :D
two times dash
@@eddiezhong7586 thanx for the advice man...it worked fine after that
Excellent!!! You are the best because you explain so dummies like me can understand!
Thanks alot, works perfectly in November, 2022.😁
Thanks for the video. It's exactly what I needed. Great tutorial.
Thank you so, so much! Very good and clear explanation. Good work.
thanks a lot bro
it worked...love from Bangladesh
Welcome 👍
Thanks so much. Excellent step by step procedure. Keep up the good work
Thank you for watching
Many many many thanks to you, for sharing such valuable information. This helps me a lot , solved my problem.
Thanks buddy, helped a lot!
Thank you so much!!! Excellent video!!!
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching
Saved my life! Thanks!
Thank you very much, I learned a lot.
Thanks saved me days
It worked! Thanks a lot bro. But I got a warning that "lower labels may not work properly in dos or windows" how to fix that?
Thanks a lot. Nicely explained. Keep on the good work!
Hi Sven. Thank for watching.
life saver mate. great video
Thanks Brother, you are a real help.
I freakin' LOVE you dude, thank you so much for this
God bless.
you are my hero. i did it in windows couldn't do it on my new linux.thanks
Muito bom é bem completo. Thanks again
Thank you, Luis.
THX man I really had a problem with that
thanks a lot !! it helped me a lot
you save me a 4GB usb drive very tkz : )
thank you so much man.. you just saved my $30
Perfect tutorial thank you!
Worked! Thanks a ton man, subbed and belled!
Great! Very helpful.
I congratulate you for this video, it's the best tuto i ever followed i tried the first method once it worked , and the scend one twice it worked too and was fast i didn't tried the third becuse i didn't had another usb to format it but i'm sure it would work , thank you so much i wish you much sucsse
Thanks a lot mate...such a great help
Average Linux User: I am following your instructions, and i'm getting this: "probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy". This was just after i put in this command (sudo wipefs --all /dev/sdb) and typed in my password. I unmounted it and put in that command and got this: "probing initialization failed: No medium found". Help!
thank you sooooo much. This really helped me out
Glad it helped!
thank you so much brother, your video is useful for me..
Thanks so much, you're the best my brother !
Thanks mate, you just saved my life. 👍
thanks man
its a very helpful video.......!
cool video !!! thank you so much
great video I really appreciate that.
Thanks you from India!
thank you so much it works perfectly
Thank a lot ALU you do really help me.
Thanks, bro u saved my day
Life saver man
thanks, it very helpful
Thanks a lot sir it helped me
You have saved me thanks sir...😀
Saved my day!
Thank you!
I have a bootable pen drive...which is not working in my android. Can u please tell me how to make it work as a normal pen drive. Please tell me the process of android terminal . i want to do this in android terminal.
Thank you so much bro!
it was that easy. Thank you!
4:19 idk why I tried that removing partition and LOL it worked 😂😂😂 thnx for the vid LOL
same : )
Helpful vdo....thank you so much
Thank you brother!!!!!!!!!!
thank u soooooo much man!!!
It works thanks 👍
great video, thank you.
It worked thanku brother
excellent informative edited understandable example thanks i was struggling with this, can you do a DD tutuorial
I have replied your previous comment. But here is more useful tips ruclips.net/video/rpGgTTFKwiU/видео.html
Thank you ALU
my usb drive became slow when transfering files
less than 1mbs
I manage to format it to fat32 by following your first method and got /dev/sdc1 in my case
note:
my other usb drive which also fat32 transfer speed is 25mbs
I wonder what happen
THANKS.THIS VIDEO REALLY WORKED FOR ME,THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Hi Angelis, You are very welcome
@@AverageLinuxUser EVEN AFTER 2 YEARS I STILL COME BACK TO YOUR VIDOES BECAUSE THEY ARE SO MUCH EXPLANATORY. H LIKE THE GOOD WORK YOUR SHARING.... CHEERS.
Thank you so much
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much
Good vid, thx
Pls more video! Good stuff!!
More videos on the way. Thank you for watching and commenting
you got your new subscriber...Thanks
Thanks a lot dude 😃😃
thanks for it since imma change my linux mint boot to ubuntu