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I do not think creating a new partition table generates a new disk identifier. It is just a random number created when building a new MBR. Odd but it might of always been zero from the start. If you can successfully read / write from the drive then it is probably ok.
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Take a look at the output of the dmesg command.
If you see any read / write errors pertaining to the flash drive then it is might be going bad.
My first guess was the drive was bad and expected the format to fail...
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[ 4526.280006] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[ 4526.414952] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567
[ 4526.414959] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4526.414962] usb 1-1: Product: Cruzer Blade
[ 4526.414965] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[ 4526.414967] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 4528401D5F52EAF7
[ 4526.417540] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 4527.416703] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 4527.417055] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[ 4527.419682] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] 3907583 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 GB/1.86 GiB)
[ 4527.420206] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[ 4527.420213] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 4527.420708] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page found
[ 4527.420715] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4527.425940] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page found
[ 4527.425946] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4527.429934] sde:
[ 4527.432799] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] No Caching mode page found
[ 4527.432805] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4527.432807] sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
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