I was trying to create a bootable Windows 7 USB stick using the instructions in the blog post below:

* [CREATE A BOOTABLE WINDOWS 7 USB DRIVE FROM LINUX (TESTED ON UBUNTU)](http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/create-bootable-windows-7-usb-drive.html)

But after trying to format the `/dev/sdb` partition to **ntfs** from **GParted**, I'm unable to get the USB to show up. I pulled out and plugged the USB back in. Below is what shows up in GParted currently:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6FJ2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6FJ2.png)

I tried using `tail -f /var/log/syslog` and then plugged in the USB. Below is the output:

```
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.380885] usb 3-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 29 using ehci-pci
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487435] usb 3-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0718, idProduct=0619
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487440] usb 3-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487443] usb 3-1.3: Product: Ridge
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487445] usb 3-1.3: Manufacturer: Imation
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487447] usb 3-1.3: SerialNumber: 0707426E0AAA6E83
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487862] usb-storage 3-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34946.487962] scsi host19: usb-storage 3-1.3:1.0
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 29: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3"
Jan  2 23:09:58 chaudharyp-PC mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 29 was not an MTP device
Jan  2 23:09:59 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34947.486558] scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Imation  Ridge            PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Jan  2 23:09:59 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34947.487203] sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.514732] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] 15261696 512-byte logical blocks: (7.81 GB/7.27 GiB)
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.517199] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.517202] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.519059] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.519061] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.580889]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Jan  2 23:10:02 chaudharyp-PC kernel: [34950.588909] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

```

I used `lsblk` and got the following output:

```
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   350M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0   200G  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0   450M  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0   520G  0 part 
├─sda6   8:6    0  93.1G  0 part /
├─sda7   8:7    0  93.1G  0 part /home
└─sda8   8:8    0  24.5G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   1   7.3G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   1   200M  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   1   7.1G  0 part 
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom 

```

`sdb` is visible here. It is also showing up in GParted. But it isn't showing up in the "Files" window.

I tried mounting `/dev/sdb1` using `mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt` and then ran `sudo mount` and got the following output:

```
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

```

The USB is still not showing up in "Files".

Please help me for this.