option then make sure to have the 'Compatible with modern systems and hard drives > 2TB (GPT)' selected (you can use either the Quick option or the Slow option). First left-click on the drive on the left side then left-click on the top right menu with three dots (three lines on older releases). In this screenshot the drive is a USB Flash Drive, though the concept is the same for any drive, including the drive where your OS is installed.

Disks comes pre-installed on Pop!_OS and Ubuntu.

The Disks application can be used to format the drive to remove any personal data. See this article for instructions to boot into the Pop!_OS recovery partition. In the unmount command, I used sdb1 because it was a partition. The existing operating system can be repaired or reinstalled from the recovery mode. Other option to format a bootable USB to normal. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive. The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. See this article for instructions to create a bootable Pop!_OS live USB. Option 1: Live USBĪ live disk is a bootable USB storage device that runs the entire operating system in RAM.

In order to format the drive that has your OS on it we will need to boot from either a live disk or the Pop Recovery partition.

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