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SteveInBavaria
Asked: 2019-05-14 10:46:59 +0800 CST

gparted error message

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Edit: I have just noticed that even after reformating the usb stick that in gparted there is a red circle with an exclamation mark and clicking on it brings up the warning.

plain floppy: device "/dev/sda" busy (Resource temporarily unavailable): Cannot initialize '::' mlabel: Cannot initialize drive

I reformatted the usb stick to FAT 32 via both gparted and Nautilus. How can I get rid of this message.

gparted dd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the answer after a lot of trial and error. First of all I reformatted the usb stick with FAT32. In gparted the red warning circle was still there. I then made a new partition table using Device-Create partition, selecting MS-DOS and then clicking the green tick. I then selected Partition-New and then the green tick and then I had a new FAT32 partition without any warning.

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  2. Sounds like incorrect flash partitioning.

    the easy fix (usually) is dd...

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[usb_here]

    that will wipe it finding the first and last sectors.

    then format it normally

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