I have been unable to format/delete the partitions on my Sandisk Cruzer Force 32 GB USB Drive. I get the following error when deleting any of the partitions on it.
`Error deleting partition /dev/sdd2: Command-line `parted --script "/dev/sdd" "rm 2"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
(udisks-error-quark, 0)
Is there any way I can completely format all of my drive and turn it into one large partition? I haven't found a solution to this particular error here yet, so I thought I'd actually ASK for once
Best Answer
The problem you are describing was caused by a low-level device tool (like dd) writing blocks at the wrong size directly onto the device.
To fix this, you need to re-write the device blocks to the appropriate size. This can be done with dd. Double check your output device before running the command
Once the dd command is done, you should be able to access your device through gparted.