Hi Folks, I am very seriously needing to reformat a Kingston flash-drive. I am running the Debian system with Orca. I could not find any disk utility in the systems tools menu that would permit me to do this. Might this be something that I need to "apt-get install? I use the flash drive in order to read digital talking books on an NLS player. The flash drive fits into a USB port on the side of the player. I have done a great deal of back and forth file movement, and as you know, linux loves to create and cram waist baskets. When ever I attempted to empty the waist basket, I received an error message to the effect that the content of the folder couldn't be deleted, because it was resident on a "read only media." Moreover, the folder its self couldn't be deleted for the same reason. Now how in the world could something like that happen in the first place? The drive had no software, none that I could find at any rate; had there been any files, they were attrib-hidden. I have never encountered a situation wherein one is unable to empty an electronic trash-can. I can not understand for the life of me how the flash drive all of a sudden became a "read only" media, let alone how to remedy the matter. Needless to say, I am at the end of my wits which were pretty feeble to begin with. I could really use some input here. Thanks so much in advance. Ray Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list