[SOLVED] Trouble with new USB

[Valtam]

Pulling out any storage media is a no-no when it is zeroing out. Typically a zero out will take anywhere from an hour to several hours. Best to start this before you go to bed, then check it in the morning. But chances are that the drive is now kaput due to pulling it out mid-job. This will be also why your system froze. As gold_finger said, don't throw it out just yet, it would be a terrible waste of the support people have offered up to this point.