Para desinstalar o Tails de um pendrive USB e usá-lo para alguma outra coisa, você deve resetá-lo.

The content of the USB stick is lost in the operation, but an attacker might still be able to tell that Tails was installed on that USB stick using data recovery techniques.

Qualquer disco rígido conectado ao seu computador pode ser sobrescrito.

Se em algum momento você não tiver certeza de qual dispositivo escolher, não prossiga.

Erase Tails from the USB stick

First, erase Tails from the USB stick:

  1. Tenha certeza de que o pendrive USB que você quer resetar esteja desconectado.

  2. Open the Start () menu.

  3. Choose Windows System ▸ Command Prompt.

  4. Execute the following command to start the Diskpart utility.

    diskpart

  5. Execute the following command to obtain information about the disks in the computer.

    list disk

    Por exemplo:

    Diskpart> list disk

  Disk ###  Status      Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  ----------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online        80 GB      0 B

  6. Conecte o pendrive USB que você quer resetar.

  7. Run the same command again.

    list disk

    A new disk, which corresponds to the USB stick that you plugged in, appears in the list.

    Por exemplo:

     Diskpart> list disk

   Disk ###  Status      Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
   --------  ----------  -------  -------  ---  ---
   Disk 0    Online        80 GB      0 B
   Disk 1    Online         8 GB      0 B

    Make sure that its size corresponds to the size of the USB stick that you want to reset. Note down its disk number.

    In this example, the disk number of the USB stick is 1. Yours might be different.

  8. Execute the following command to select the USB stick. Replace number with the disk number found in step 7.

    select disk=number

  9. Execute the following command to delete the partition table from the USB stick.

    clean

Create a new partition on the USB stick

Then, create a new partition on the USB stick:

  1. Execute the following command to create a new partition table on the USB stick.

    convert mbr

  2. Execute the following command to create a new primary partition on the USB stick.

    create partition primary

  3. Unplug the USB stick.

  4. Plug the USB stick again.

  5. A dialog appears to format the disk before using it.

    You need to format the disk before you can use it. Do you want to format it?

  6. Click on the Format disk button.

  7. In the Format USB Drive dialog, review the settings and click Start.

  8. After the formatting is complete, the USB stick should appear as a new drive in the files browser.

    Otherwise, try unplugging and plugging it again.

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