16 Gig Thumb Drive

[konaexpress]

Hi, I have a 16 gig thumb drive that I run PCLOS on but Windows called "No Love" on it and could only format it to 4 gig.  Is there a way to format it to 16 gig, make it bootable and run PCLOS permanently from it? I really don't care if I burn up the drive, I could be wrong but I would guess it would take a year or two with light use before it is no good. It is to use on netbooks or to show other people what PCLOS is. -Thanks

BTW- I am running PCLOS from my Macbook so I can use it to format the drive if it will make this easier. Just not sure how yet.

[Old-Polack]

Hi, I have a 16 gig thumb drive that I run PCLOS on but Windows called "No Love" on it and could only format it to 4 gig.  Is there a way to format it to 16 gig, make it bootable and run PCLOS permanently from it? I really don't care if I burn up the drive, I could be wrong but I would guess it would take a year or two with light use before it is no good. It is to use on netbooks or to show other people what PCLOS is. -Thanks

BTW- I am running PCLOS from my Macbook so I can use it to format the drive if it will make this easier. Just not sure how yet.

Are you trying to run PCLinuxOS as a liveUSB, or as a fully installed OS, the same as if installed to an internal drive? If the latter. why would you have tried to use Windows to format the thumb drive?

[konaexpress]

Hi, I have a 16 gig thumb drive that I run PCLOS on but Windows called "No Love" on it and could only format it to 4 gig.  Is there a way to format it to 16 gig, make it bootable and run PCLOS permanently from it? I really don't care if I burn up the drive, I could be wrong but I would guess it would take a year or two with light use before it is no good. It is to use on netbooks or to show other people what PCLOS is. -Thanks

BTW- I am running PCLOS from my Macbook so I can use it to format the drive if it will make this easier. Just not sure how yet.

Are you trying to run PCLinuxOS as a liveUSB, or as a fully installed OS, the same as if installed to an internal drive? If the latter. why would you have tried to use Windows to format the thumb drive?

I think what I want is a live version that will live and run from the thumb drive. Why Windows? I didn't know any better when I first started using PCLOS, now I have it on my MacBook but I would like a version to take with me to show other people.

[CaptainSarcastic]

Something to check:

You might have been ripped off and gotten a 4GB drive that was set up to report itself as 16GB - there was a rash of fake USB drives not long ago:

http://www.passmark.com/support/bit_fake_USB_detection.htm

[T6]

is it a kingston?

there is a kingston tool that can create a hidden partition that linux and windows will see as a hidden or a cd rom drive

works weird and can't be deleted easily, at least i couldn't on linux

i had to use the same tool to wipe the partition

[JALU]

is it a kingston?

there is a kingston tool that can create a hidden partition that linux and windows will see as a hidden or a cd rom drive

works weird and can't be deleted easily, at least i couldn't on linux

i had to use the same tool to wipe the partition

Similar experience here with a 4G Toshiba USB stick..  I had to first dd something to it (I had a 4G .gz image handy - not important) and then I could create a new partition table...  PITA!
Cages

[konaexpress]

Nope, it is 16 gig because my mac could format it but will not load PCLOS on it.

[Just17]

Format it in Linux ......  or if you wish create a few partitions on it and use one of them for PCLOS LiveUSB.

Format the partition you wish to use for Linux as ext and then use PCLinuxOS-liveUSB creator to put the live OS on the partition.

Threads that might be of interest ...

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74878

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74879

The live install is very useful for booting on various different PCs .....  and can also be used to install from if required.

[konaexpress]

Cool, and thanks. I will try this. Can I just install it and have it use the whole 16 gig? BTW- what version of PCLOS would be good to use? It needs to run on netbooks and things like that.

[T6]

i use kde4 on my netbook

[Just17]

Cool, and thanks. I will try this. Can I just install it and have it use the whole 16 gig? BTW- what version of PCLOS would be good to use? It needs to run on netbooks and things like that.

As it is a live system it uses the space required for the ISO contents .....  about 700MBs

If you make the partition larger then you can install ALL versions of PCLOS on the one partition, and choose whichever you wish at boot time.
Your boot menu will become rather cluttered doing this of course  (you can separately edit the menu.lst file to excluse the optional entries from the boot menu by commenting (#) the 'title' in those stanzas)  .....  but it should give you the opportunity of showing several versions from the one USB device.