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I added a second harddrive and now I am trying to format the first one and I am having an issue

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I just added a second faster hard-drive and it is working great! However I am having an issue formatting the original hard-drive (I already have everything backed up).

After going to the disk app and selecting the correct hard-drive i click on format. After about 10 seconds or so I receive this error

"Error formatting disk. Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)"

Any ideas on how to either fix this issue or simply format my older hard-drive?

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answered 1 Year ago nstitutencert · Accepted Answer

Try with GParted.

sudo apt-get install gparted

Open it through the menu or typing sudo gparted in terminal.

Choose the disc you want to format, unmount it, select the partition type and apply the changes.

A guide with screenshots: http://itsfoss.com/how-to-format-a-sd-card-or-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-12-10/