Weird usb drive

[Fallen Dog]

I just installed Pop Os on a machine, it works fine. The problem is that the usb drive is not working as normal. I can see the files in pop os and not my main windows 10 machine. And when i do check the files on linux, it's size is as big as the iso that i put on there. I used balencaEtcher to put the iso on the usb drive. Is there any way i can get the usb drive to just be empty again? I tried to format an old usb drive on windows, but it broke entirely so im scared to format it again.

[Needfuldoer]

It's probably in a Linux format that Windows doesn't understand.

 

You can use a tool like GParted to completely erase the flash drive and create a new exfat, NTFS, or FAT32 file system on it.

 

This tutorial was written for Ubuntu, but it's the same application:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/

 

Here's how to do the same thing with the Windows command line tool DiskPart:

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/

[Fallen Dog]

6 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

 

Here's how to do the same thing with the Windows command line tool DiskPart:

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/

Thank you so much, it worked