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FDisk: Fixing What GParted Can’t

After my foray into making bootable flash drives, I decided to put my flash drive back to its original state. It was going to take at least a little bit of effort since I know had multiple partitions on the drive which would need to be removed. I first went to my default disk utility, GParted.
GParted allowed me to first unmount the partitions that Linux was auto-mounting as drives. I was then able to delete the partitions to make the drive completely unallocated space. That’s where I started to run into issues. I went to make the entire drive a single FAT32 partition, but GParted gave me the following ....

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