I receive following Error in disk-utility:
Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Did you try using gparted?
sudo apt-get install gparted
Open Gparted
sudo gparted
In the top right select your usb drive, it will probably be sdb, right click in the main window and unmount if needed. Right click again and select delete and than right click one last time on the unallocated space and select new. Now you just need to setup the USB partition to suit your needs.
If you still are having issues using gparted, you could always zero fill the drive, meaning, cleaning the drive completely by writing all zeros.
sudo fdisk -l
look for the sdX location for your USB stick.
dd=if/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
This can take awhile depending on the size of your USB stick and your PC speed, etc... Don't worry if you see a blinking cursor, just give it time, I did a 2gig mp3 player and it took about an hour and a half.
Now open gparted or disk utility and see if the drive is performing correctly.
sudo fdisk -l dd=if/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
but gparted did work.
Jul 26, 2014 at 22:40
sudo fdisk-l
Jul 27, 2014 at 7:51
gparted
and tried it?