Completely formatting a USB flash drive

Completely formatting a USB flash drive I have a Verbatim Store 'n' Go drive which by default comes with software in a partition which password protects the drive. I want to erase this partition, as it only works on Windows (I'm having to look at it now through a virtual machine on my Mac).
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"Pop the drive in your Mac and run dd with the input as /dev/zero to fill it with zeros:

you'll probably need to mount it first:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

then wipe it:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt

change the drive location accordingly."