USB Flash drive recognized as floppy/wrong format?

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My sister needs some help. She has a USB flash drive that has quite a few important reports for work. She put it in her husbands laptop today to work on one of them, and got the error message "The floppy in drive F: is not formatted or has been formatted for a Macintosh." She has used this on multiple computers, all Windows machines, with no problems before this. This was the first time it had been used in a Vista machine, however. Shes tried it on three other computers, all XP systems, with the same error message. For the record, she says she always removes it properly, so lets assume thats the case for now. Ive googled the error message, and everything seems to relay to a floppy disk. Is there any solution to this, or is she completely screwed?

 

[corkyg]

The final verdict won't bubble up until she takes it to work and looks at it on the machine that created it. If she gets the same error message then, she can assume the flash device got corrupted. It doesn't take a lot to do that - static electricity in handling can ruin a flash device - and sometimes they simply fail with no rational explanation.