Windows 10 thinks my USB flash disk is a different type of drive

[Michael]

Let me explain what I really mean. A work computer screwed up my flash drive. I'm wondering if it is fixable or not.
When I went back to my computer to test it out Windows will beep t4elling me that it is recognized. Explorer shows it as a new drive "E" written as "USB Drive (E : )": <-- Note the colon ":" . However, a pop up window shows up saying, "Please insert a disk into USB Drive (E : )" As if it's a Cd drive or what-have-you. Is there anyway to repair this or not? Nothing is readable. That pop up window prevent further reading.
Thank you.
Note: I had to add spaces above after the E and the colon and closed bracket or else it came out as a happy face.

 

[Wolfie]

HI Michael,

did you safely remove the USB stick from your work PC?, if you didn't, that might explain why you are having problems with it?. (Just a thought!).

For those that don't know about safe removal:

https://www.howtogeek.com/118546/htg-explains-do-you-really-need-to-safely-remove-usb-sticks/

 

[clifford_cooley]

I'm not sure about recovery. But if the drive has not been physically damaged, it can be reformatted.

This utility should work, if Windows fails to format the drive.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html

 

[Michael]

Yup the drive was removed properly. This problem occured while the drive was in--long story but it did not only happen to one flash drive but 2 actually on 2 different days. It can't be formatted, since as I said the pop up window won't allow anything else and the window pops up as soon as you click on the drive within Explorer