I am running Ubuntu 15.10 and trying to format a USB drive to load a Windows ISO on. Every tutorial has you install ntfs-3g so that you can format to NTFS using fdisk, hex code 7. But when I go to fdisk and list the file system options, they are different than what is reported elsewhere:
The results from my fdisk file systems list is below. Is there something wrong with the USB drive that won't allow it to use the other file system types? Or am I missing some additional driver/software?
Command (m for help): t Selected partition 1 Hex code (type L to list all codes): L 1 EFI System C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B 2 MBR partition scheme 024DEE41-33E7-11D3-9D69-0008C781F39F 3 Intel Fast Flash D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593 4 BIOS boot 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649 5 Microsoft reserved E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE 6 Microsoft basic data EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 7 Microsoft LDM metadata 5808C8AA-7E8F-42E0-85D2-E1E90434CFB3 8 Microsoft LDM data AF9B60A0-1431-4F62-BC68-3311714A69AD 9 Windows recovery environment DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 10 IBM General Parallel Fs 37AFFC90-EF7D-4E96-91C3-2D7AE055B174 11 Microsoft Storage Spaces E75CAF8F-F680-4CEE-AFA3-B001E56EFC2D 12 HP-UX data 75894C1E-3AEB-11D3-B7C1-7B03A0000000 13 HP-UX service E2A1E728-32E3-11D6-A682-7B03A0000000 14 Linux swap 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F 15 Linux filesystem 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 16 Linux server data 3B8F8425-20E0-4F3B-907F-1A25A76F98E8 17 Linux root (x86) 44479540-F297-41B2-9AF7-D131D5F0458A 18 Linux root (x86-64) 4F68BCE3-E8CD-4DB1-96E7-FBCAF984B709 19 Linux reserved 8DA63339-0007-60C0-C436-083AC8230908 20 Linux home 933AC7E1-2EB4-4F13-B844-0E14E2AEF915 21 Linux RAID A19D880F-05FC-4D3B-A006-743F0F84911E 22 Linux extended boot BC13C2FF-59E6-4262-A352-B275FD6F7172 23 Linux LVM E6D6D379-F507-44C2-A23C-238F2A3DF928 24 FreeBSD data 516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B 25 FreeBSD boot 83BD6B9D-7F41-11DC-BE0B-001560B84F0F 26 FreeBSD swap 516E7CB5-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B 27 FreeBSD UFS 516E7CB6-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B 28 FreeBSD ZFS 516E7CBA-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B 29 FreeBSD Vinum 516E7CB8-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B 30 Apple HFS/HFS+ 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 31 Apple UFS 55465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 32 Apple RAID 52414944-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 33 Apple RAID offline 52414944-5F4F-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 34 Apple boot 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 35 Apple label 4C616265-6C00-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 36 Apple TV recovery 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 37 Apple Core storage 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 38 Solaris boot 6A82CB45-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 39 Solaris root 6A85CF4D-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 40 Solaris /usr & Apple ZFS 6A898CC3-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 41 Solaris swap 6A87C46F-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 42 Solaris backup 6A8B642B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 43 Solaris /var 6A8EF2E9-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 44 Solaris /home 6A90BA39-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 45 Solaris alternate sector 6A9283A5-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 46 Solaris reserved 1 6A945A3B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 47 Solaris reserved 2 6A9630D1-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 48 Solaris reserved 3 6A980767-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 49 Solaris reserved 4 6A96237F-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 50 Solaris reserved 5 6A8D2AC7-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 51 NetBSD swap 49F48D32-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 52 NetBSD FFS 49F48D5A-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 53 NetBSD LFS 49F48D82-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 54 NetBSD concatenated 2DB519C4-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 55 NetBSD encrypted 2DB519EC-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 56 NetBSD RAID 49F48DAA-B10E-11DC-B99B-0019D1879648 57 ChromeOS kernel FE3A2A5D-4F32-41A7-B725-ACCC3285A309 58 ChromeOS root fs 3CB8E202-3B7E-47DD-8A3C-7FF2A13CFCEC 59 ChromeOS reserved 2E0A753D-9E48-43B0-8337-B15192CB1B5E 60 MidnightBSD data 85D5E45A-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 61 MidnightBSD boot 85D5E45E-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 62 MidnightBSD swap 85D5E45B-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 63 MidnightBSD UFS 0394Ef8B-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 64 MidnightBSD ZFS 85D5E45D-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 65 MidnightBSD Vinum 85D5E45C-237C-11E1-B4B3-E89A8F7FC3A7 3 Answers
It wasn't a problem that your partition was set to GPT. NTFS partition is actualy one of the Microsoft basic data partitions under number 6. Read the wikipedia here.
It seems my problem was that the Partition Table was set to gpt. Changing it to msdos via gparted solved my problem.
You use 7 for mbr partition table, but for gpt partition table you need to use 6 Microsoft basic data
