Thumb drive that worked before doesn't work anymore

[CPTHughes]

I have a 2 GB PNY Optima Attache thumb drive. I normally use it to transfer
files between my laptop running Vista Home Premium and my work computer
running Windows XP. It has worked fine for several months. Yesterday, I put
my thumb drive into someone else's Mac to copy a file from the Mac onto the
thumb drive. The thumb drive is now an "unrecognized device" on my Vista
laptop, although it still works fine on my work computer. Is this
correctable, or do I need to buy a new thumb drive? I hate Macs!

 

[JP Levasseur]

Hi CPTHugues, insert your thumb drive in the usb slot on your Vista
computer,vista should assign a letter it could be E,F,G, to the removable
Disk take a note of the letter assign and now go in computer/and right click
with your mouse on the Removable disk letter of your thumb drive and choose
format a new window appear you go in file system and choose NTFS because you
will have a faster transer with vista and xp,and now put a check in Quick
Format and push the start button.Bye JP