Why is my device acting like a partition that I can't reset?

Hey guys!
My problem is regarding to a USB stick that I used dd to write gparted to. The live iso from gparted's website.
The problem though is that the ISO did not work and I had to do the partitions myself and then just zip the files to the corret place.
It succeeded, but my USB stick that I first wrote the ISO to is kind of not working anymore and I suspect it has to do with this:
[~]: lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
└─sda1 ext4 7306329d-214f-482e-a8b8-a0179bee4bb8 /
sdb udf GParted-live 2015-01-27-16-09-57-00
├─sdb1 vfat Boot CCA3-DA7D
└─sdb2 hfsplus Install Yosemite OS X 10.10 7476de49-8c46-3c55-a552-e8cd71974e34
So, I have been trying to make a USB Installer for my Hackintosh (unrelated to this topic though) as you can see on the second partition. It also has a boot. But then it also says the whole device is of the udf fileformat, has a label GParted-live and a UUID for the whole device. Whenever I use fdisk to repartition the partitions change but not this information on that particular row.
The normal GParted ISO has just one partition that basically has the same label and stuff but as far as I remember it was not mountable amd dmesg told me it could not find a udf anchor.
If I tried to mount just /dev/sdb though, it worked fine. So /dev/sdb1 did not work.
I could probably recreate the scenario but I would rather not as I am just asking why this is and if this is normal? And if so, how do I reset it properly? Because neither Windows or Linux has been able to actually do this yet. Only dd would do the trick but I don't want to write a new ISO to it just for that. I was hoping to learn where this problem lies instead. I guess there are things saved somewhere on the drive that is not changed when I make a new partition table with fdisk?
NOTE: The whole device itself is mountable right now. I just wrote the following without errors:
[~]sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp
mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
[~]ls /mnt/tmp
EFI GParted-Live-Version GPL live syslinux utils
Note that I have not put anything on the new partitions, just made the file systems. I am not sure if these files are corrupted or not at this stage.
Last edited by timelaw (2015-03-19 19:02:03)

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