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However, similar issue happens with any drive model upon flashing the above image to it. I used a Transcend 4GB flash drive, not sure with which controller. what tool to use to fully format it to factory state?
#Unable to format flash drive how to
how to discover, make visible, and format hidden (in a boot sector?) Kali Linux and possibly other small partitions on the flash drive? why Gparted can't mount the drive upon formatting it? However when released from the VM it mounts the Fat32 partition in Windows, and BalenaEtcher can flash another image to the drive. Once visible partition is formatted to Fat32, Gparted can't mount the drive in Linux. I had to format the flash drive in a Linux VM with Gparted, but it can see only one partition on it, so other partitions are hidden. Once flashed, its impossible to re-flash a different image to the drive with BalenaEtcher, since it can't find the drive. After flashing the drive would not be accessible in Windows File Manager, but appears to contain several partitions, including some Kali Linux volumes. The image contains bootable version of checkra1n tool used to jailbreak iOS devices. I flashed checkn1x Linux ISO to a formatted USB flash drive with BalenaEtcher on a Windows 10 PC.