Why do I have to force eject a USB Drive?

I'm trying to make a bootable flash drive for OS X Mavericks but I try to partition my flash drive and it won't let me. It comes up with an error that says this:
Can anyone help me? I try to eject the disk but every time i have to force eject because it says that one or more processes are using the flash drive. Thanks.

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