The only thing that helped was letting dd run for half a minute or so writing zeroes to the first few MB's of the USB stick. But no luck - I even kept getting errors from the YAST partitioner and no matter what computer I inserted the USB stick into Dolphin kept showing the 'ghost' partitions, by which I mean 'Opensuse live KDE' (whatever it's called) partition plus another one that none of the partitioning programs saw. I tried the expert option in the YAST partitioner that creates a new partition table, I tried umpteen times to delete all partitions and create a new partition table in cfdisk and fdisk. In both cases no matter which partitioner I tried (YAST Partitioner, cfdisk, fdisk) the partition table was not properly deleted/re-initialised. I have two USB sticks, both different sizes and from different manufacturers, which had the Opensuse 12.1 KDE x86_64 image written onto them with Suse Studio Imagewriter. Sorry but you're (partially) wrong there. (from 12.3 x86_64 'Dartmouth' at Telcontar) For instance, useįdisk to create a new partition table, then create a new partition, then Then you can use anything else to format it again. If you can just totally delete the first few The windows format program is a rubbish :-P By the way, Imagewriter.exe still sees the usb How can save my USB? I want to change its > I am really shocked to see that only 4 megabytes of the 8 gigabyte USB > USB for other purposes, so I decided to format it in windows (NTFS). After the installation, I wanted to use the

It burned successfully and I could manage to I decided to install opensuse 12.4 by burning the DVD image to a USB

Usb burning tool not detecting