Restoring Ubuntu boot USB drive

GE90_115B · February 28, 2018

A few months ago I used a USB drive to install Ubuntu, and later wanted to revert the drive to it normal state again. Now the drive registers normally on both Windows and Ubuntu, while in Mac the drive mounts but the contents used to boot Ubuntu are displayed, while the actual files stored on the drive are not visible in any way.

What I did:

Used diskpart in Windows 10 to delete all partitions in the drive
Created a primary partition
Formatted that partition into FAT32 using a full format (not quick format)

Any ideas on how to fix the issue?

BTW the drive is a Kingston 100 G3, 16G

Thanks!

Crunchy Dragon · February 28, 2018

I've wiped drives in the past by using Disk Management in Windows 10 to format the drive to what I needed it as without doing anything with partitions, just a complete drive wipe.