[Clug-tech] Borked flash drive?

[Mitch Brown]

Greetings,

In a very complicated series of steps (me playing around), I managed to
screw the partition table up on my flash drive severely. When I mount the
drive, I can see the partition, and the files in it. Although I cannot
delete them, alter them, etc - they're "stuck". I can then unmount the
drive, and delete the partition through cfdisk. This has no affect, upon
recreating them (even in another format), the files are still there, and
"stuck". If I try and load up the drive in GParted, I see the one partition,
and as soon as I unmount it (so I can edit it), GParted hangs on "Scanning
sdb partitions...". The terminal output from QTParted has left me with the
following brief hint as to whats wrong:

Error: \POOL\MAIN\D\DBUS\��L
�.A is 707506k, but it has 1627 clusters
(13016k).

All I want to do is to completely purge this flash drive of everything
partitiony. Period.

How do I do this?

-Mitch
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