formatting a usb hard drive

[rdpsycho]

hello i am trying to format a usb hard drive to fat32 so i can use it with my ps3, i have gparted installed but when i try to use it the option to format from right clicking on the drive is grayed out. there is also a lock icon on all the drives. what do i do?

[Crafty Kisses]

Does the USB drive show up, post the results of > lsusb

[rdpsycho]

clinton@clinton-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0caf:2339 Buslink
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1532:0101
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c222 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c221 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c223 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

buslink is my drive and yes it works fine, i started gparted by using sudo gparted in the terminal

[LateNiteTV]

try this:

mkfs -t vfat /path/to/device

[rdpsycho]

nevermind i found the answer in another topic, all i had to do was unmount the drive before starting gparted