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  1. THE WINDOWS WAY Hi folks. I've never bothered with Linux before because I've never needed to. Nor a Mac come to that. I'm a Windows kinda guy and consequently I'm rubbish with Linux. It's probably not THE thing to say on any forum, let alone a Hak5 one, but for anyone else out there like me, here's how to format their USB drive with Windows. After doing these very spoon-fed, hand-held steps, you can just pop the USB in to the Pineapple and give it a restart and all is good without having to download VMWare and Ubuntu: 1) Download MiniTools "Partition Wizard Home Edition" for free from http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html 2) Follow the step by step install. I just used default options throughout. 3) Open up the tool with your USB drive already plugged in to your PC. 4) Identify your USB drive (either by drive letter, size, etc) and right click it. Select "Delete" to delete the partition. 5) Right click again and select "Wipe". The default "Fill sectors with Zero" is fine - you're only trying to clean it up a bit and you don't want to wait hours for this to do! The tool hasn't done these actions yet - it's building a list of processes to carry out. Now is your last chance to remember if you have any important stuff on your USB drive that you actually need or to realise if you're about to perform these actions on your hard drive, because if you can't even get this right, it's likely to cost you a fair bit to recover the data. Once satisfied a personal armageddon is not going to ruin your life just yet... 6) ...Click "Apply" in the top left! 7) Warning message blurb; ignore and click Yes. You can carry on using your PC, just don't let it go in to sleep mode. If you can't disable that, then you really should consider whether you should be doing THIS process for THIS purpose! Whir whir whir... This can take a few minutes, so go find a cheesy 80s song on YouTube and practice busting some grooves. Personally, I chose 8) Just before you start considering getting a perm like Phil, you'll get a success message. Click "OK". 9) Right-click the drive again and select "Create". Use these settings: Create As = Primary; File System = EXT4; Drag the right side of the slider down to about 80%. 10) Everything else is inconsequential, so be care-free and click "OK" 11) Right-click the "Unallocated" portion of your drive and select Create. Use these settings: Create As = Primary; File System = Linux Swap. 12) Don't move the slider this time, just click "OK". 13) Click "Apply" from the top left again, ignore the error message and stick Phil Oakly back on. 14) Click "OK" on the success message and close the program. 15) Browse to the Pineapple's USB page and update the script with this from Darren's post at the top: config global automount option from_fstab 1 option anon_mount 1 config global autoswap option from_fstab 1 option anon_swap 1 config mount option target /usb option device /dev/sda1 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 config swap option device /dev/sda2 option enabled 1 16) Plug the USB drive into the Pineapple and restart it whichever way you prefer. I like to get physical with my Pineapple, so I pull the power. That's it! Job done. Play Phil Oakly one more time to celebrate.
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