Cant format 1TB USB drive ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 11:29 -0400, Peter A wrote:
> On Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:17:42 am Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > I re partitioned it with one less cylinder as follows.
> You still have the old partition table on the drive when you do that. Try 
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 

That did not zero the partition table.   When I ran fdisk, it still
showed a partition.