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It is also possible to let mkusb create a persistent live drive (with standard Ubuntu or a community flavour: Kubuntu, Lubuntu.

I have succeeded with this task using gparted, as suggested already. Perhaps we shall file a bug ticket with Disks developers? It is always possibile to change the partition type with fdisk, but the conclusion is that it is better just to always use GParted. When you create the partiton with GParted the partition gets created with the right id and it is perfectly visible under Windows: I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Indeed Ubuntu Disks utility creates partition with the wrong id:Ĭhanges will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.īe careful before using the write command.ĭisk /dev/sdc: 57,9 GiB, 62109253632 bytes, 121307136 sectors You may have to follow the above steps again to create your NTFS partition. In this case, use the "Device > Create Partition Table" menu option to change the partition table type to MS-DOS. Click "View > Device Information" from the menu to see what the partition table type is. If Windows still doesn't recognize the device, the partition table may be in a different type than the MS-DOS type (Ubuntu uses gpt partition type by default I think).

Click the "Apply" button and wait for the operations to complete.Create a new partition using all of the available space and set the type to ntfs.Delete any partitions that already exist on the device.

Select the correct device from the dropdown selector on the top right.

You can format your device to NTFS using the following steps: Just as when you are using Disks, be very careful that you are making changes to the correct device. You can install it with sudo apt-get install gparted. Gparted (GNU Partition Editor) is a good graphical tool for formating drives to a variety of different filesystem types.