Flash drives formatted with gnome disks not recognized by windows

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Hello,
Flash drives formatted with gnome disks not recognized by windows (I tried NTFS and FAT32). I wonder why how to fix?
P.S. The flash drive I am talking about is Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 32GB

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Was it formatted using mkfs.vfat?
If not then it may be a linux file system which windows would be unable to access.

Plug it in then use the command lsblk -f to see the file system formatted on the device.

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I haven’t had any issue with using GNOME Disks with a 1TB USB HDD, formatting MBR or GPT, and having a single NTFS or even FAT32 partition on the whole 1TB space. It showed up fine on Windows every time.

I typically do this to copy a Windows ISO over to boot the installer from the drive from UEFI (WoeUSB for Legacy/BIOS boot, but it does the whole-disk format itself in similar manner).

One idea could be to completely erase the drive (wipefs -a -f, or format without MBR/GPT on GNOME Disks), and then start it fresh.