How to Format a Bootable USB to Normal

This video will show you how to restore a bootable USB to its normal state on Linux.

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[AverageLinuxUser]

I forgot to explain. If your flash drive was mounted, you need to unmount it before you wipefs/dd/mkfs.vfat.
Just run:
sudo umount /dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX is your flash drive.
PS. Thanks to Troy Turner, who commented about this below.

[mihamunda]

This is the most explicit comprehensive and clear tutorial for restoring an USB drive, that I ever found. Thank YOU!

[jawbaw]

Three frustrating nights of searching Youtube to clean my USB stick and this worked. Thanks much. I subscribed.

[petslittleworld]

Hi ALU, thank you so much for yet another life saving video. I used to face the usb drive problem every time after trying out a new distro. Your expert tips (both graphical and command line) will help many linux users for sure. The video thumbnail was very good too.

[nenadblesic]

Tnx! after an hour of searching and watching all that Indian videos with cars in a background and bad english finally someone that explained it very simply and very fast!

[boozarr]

Thanks, it worked perfectly!

Except for this: You forgot to say to unmount the USB drive in Disks program before entering terminal commands.. Took me a couple of minutes to figure out why I was getting error message. After unmounting USB drive, it worked.

[sahilmor]

thanks it worked ... I was trying this from 3 days ... and then finally I found this video .... thanks a lot

[simonemicucci]

i was looking for this process for week, you saved me, blessing to you

[spaceiswater]

This has fixed so many pendrives I have used for installing OS's and could never seem to use them again, but now I can. Thank you for your video it was nice and clear in restoring pendrives.

[anshulchauhan]

thank you so much bro
i can not find anything on the internet this helpful

[somebodyinnobody]

This video is legendary. You are legend. Thank you.

[Aem]

You saved my life and usb. Thanks a lot. I like these type of tutorials. Clear tutorial. Nice!

[PrzyjacielMamutow]

Great!
After formatting flash drive from system file, it was freezing my boot when it was plugged in, but formatting it from terminal resolved this issue, thank you!

[MrDoodsz]

Thanks. This is just what I needed! Also, great video! Very clear and easy to understand.

[pyotrleflegin]

Thanks again, ALU! Your videos are always just what we need to keep our Linux boxes working well! If we were still doing stars, this would have been a five!

[JD-otmc]

Thank you! brought my 32gb flash drive to life :D

[marcdavies]

Thank you for the quite thorough video.

[karanadhikary]

you save my I was super worry because the pendrive was one of my friend's!!!

[sanchit.samuel]

You can also wipe FS via Disks, just select the driver click on the overflow menu (3 vertical dots) and select format disk or CTRL + F on the selected disk. It would give a disk with no partition.

[RonaldModesitt]

Excellent video. You solved a long time problem for me.