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I would really appreciate any help with this. Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks. It then lists a number of blocks, tables and journals that have been done, and finished with When I try formatting from the "Disks" app, I get the following message:Įrror Creating File System: Command Line mkfs.ext4 -F -L "Seagate Portable" "dev/sdb1" exited with non-zero exit status 121 When I access the "Drives" app instead the drive does show up, with the following information:Īssessment: Disk is OK (34 degrees C / 93 degrees F) It only shows the primary hard drive, which is internal. When I click on "Ignore" it eventually takes me to the GParted screen that is supposed to show the hard drives. Remote I/O error during write on /dev/sdb GParted produces the following error message that repeats several times:Įrror fsyncing/closing/dev/sdb1: Remote I/O error

I'd like to format it EXT4 and use it for data storage on my laptop, which runs Linux Mint. It was originally purchased for backup storage, but is no longer used for that. If you used the Gparted iso to boot from, the process is basically the same.I have a Seagate 1.5 TB portable drive (USB). For Windows the new partition format should be NFTS. Execute the operation and Gparted will format the drive. From there you can just right click and select format. If you chose Ubuntu as your OS to boot up from, select try Ubuntu and then under the search bar look for Gparted and run it. Remember to change the boot priority under the BIOS settings so that the usb is booted first. When you have created your pendrive, reboot your computer. You can also use the Ubuntu's Startup disk creator, but I have found Unetbootin to be more reliable for me. You can install Unetbootin with the following command: Use Unetbootin to create a pendrive to boot up from. You can get the Gparted iso file from here: To format your drive you want to boot up yur system using either a Ubuntu live cd/pendrive or a Gparted live cd/pendrive