Heavily corrupted flash drive - GParted not able to delete partition

Hey guys, my computer glitched and I pulled a flash drive before I should have and it got corrupted. I want to wipe it however it's write protected - I tried using the disk utility on windows but it doesn't want to mount the partition - tools like HD Tune Pro let me know that it's corrupt but I don't know how to do anything about them , also tried the registry - a techy friend suggested I delete the partition so I burned GParted to a CD and tried using it. Below are two screenshots.

Sorry for the phone quality, but the computer can't take pictures as it's not in an OS - so it shows that the flash drive has unallocated space so I can't delete that since it's unallocated and when I try to create a new partition it doesn't let me, as you can see in the second picture.

I have no idea how to go about this anymore I don't care about the data, I just want to be able to use the flashdrive. Any help is greately appreciated - thanks!!

I probably would give DBAN a run on it and see what happens.

Will do and let you know

It doesn't even know what the USB is

Ok, I will, I apologize for that.

And no, it's never actually been write-protected before. It just says so now that it's corrupted...

gogonimago said:

It doesn't even know what the USB is

I think GParted also has a wipe function. If not, other partition progs do. In Windows, CCleaner does as well. Perhaps by wiping the stick whatever is locking it will be erased. There may also be a secure erase command built into it, but I'm not sure if it's different from what the above mentioned progs use, or how to access it.

I suppose I'll just try more programs - see I'm not trying to get it unlocked, I'm just trying to wipe the corrupted data, and that's what I tried on those programs I mentioned in the first post - I tried wiping, but they couldn't do it - Does write protection affect wiping? It would, wouldn't it? If the computer sees a drive as write-protected, it won't be able to wipe it, right?