I received a 128 Gig SanDisk flash disk. It had some stuff on it and not wanting to be responsible for any existing content I chose to format it overwriting everything with zeros.
At about 17% complete through the erase process, with about 3 to 4 hours to go, the process was interrupted. All attempts to start the formatting over again have failed either with or without the erasing process included. These attempts respond after some time with:
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Error formatting disk
Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waitingfor object
(udisks-error-quark,0)
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Attempts to access the disk return:
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Unable to mount location
Can't mount file
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I am using Mint 17.1 Mate
Is there any way to format this disk?
Any idea what went wrong so this does not happen again?