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I have a San Disk Cruzer Blade 16 GB USB flash drive which doesn't show up in Windows when I plug it in. So, when I go to Disk Management, it shows the following: (Disk 1 is the flash drive)

Disk Management Window

When I try to format it, I get:

Error Message

As suggested by the error message, when I try to assign a drive letter, I get:

Error Message

When I delete the volume in Windows and create a New Simple Volume with NTFS file system, I get the following:

Warning Message

And it's still not visible.

But the flash drive works fine with Linux. I can format and use it. What's the problem that's happening in Windows?

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    Right click and delete the existing partition then create a new partition and format it. Windows doesn’t read Linux file systems. Dec 3, 2017 at 17:33
  • I didn't format it with a Linux file system. I formatted it with a NTFS file system in Linux. Still not visible in Windows. Also, I've edited my question, please take a look at it. Dec 7, 2017 at 5:41

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If you can access to the flash drive only on Linux, try to format it in NTFS or Fat32, you will be able to see ir both on Windows and Linux.

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  • I formatted it with a NTFS file system in Linux. Still only visible in Linux, not Windows. Dec 7, 2017 at 5:47

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