if it's getting detected you can use rufus to format the drive and make it usable again but you're going to loose all the files in the drive in that process.
Thank you for your kind responses. I'd like to provide a little bit of context. I got access to the internet in mid-2016. It was an amazing thing for me because I had no idea that you could access almost all sorts of information from the same contraption, which was primarily used by me to play...
Yea, pulling out a pocket knife for small altercations is dumb. It's never about knocking your oppoinents down, its about injuring them before you start running for your life.