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Formatting USB Ubuntu Stick
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UsbUbuntu.MD

If Ubuntu doesn't format your USB Drive (possibly an Ubuntu USB stick) with an error saying

This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; >please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)

Do this:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

(where /dev/sdb is the device to be formatted)

This will copy zeroes in a low-level way to your USB. After this, you can retry formatting from Nautilus/GParted.

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