Problem with USB Thumb Drive Formatting

[David Fletcher]

On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 02:57 -0800, Keith wrote:
> I have a USB thumb drive that I can not create a new partition table to 
> or format. It says that there is an error that the drive is 512 bytes 
> when the driver says it should be 2048 bytes. Any one know how to fix 
> this? The drive is 8GB not 29GB.
> 

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£3-09 including delivery. Stop wasting your life on it.