[DM-MUG] How to reformat a travel drive

[Melissa Davidson]

Have you tried to empty the trash while the flash drive is still 
plugged in?


On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> I have a USB travel drive and need to reformat it to empty it out and 
> copy new stuff to it but on trying to use Disk Utility it is greyed 
> out, can't Erase by selecting either the actual drive or the name 
> under it in the list on the left.  I have tried to both ignore and not 
> ignore ownership and to reset the owners, no dice [keep getting error 
> 195 which doesn't solve the problem] - it is not locked and the Get 
> Info says it is read and writable but I can't do anything with it == 
> how can I get it  back to writable shape as if new???  Thanks.
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