I had had a 64GB USB flash drive formatted as a live bootable USB, then was done and formatted it with exFAT from a Linux (Kubuntu Noble) computer using mkfs.exfat. I want to use it to share (large) files between various computers.
One is a Windows 10 device, and it was able to read/write to the drive no problem. But on my Lenovo Windows 11 laptop, I cannot see the drive in explorer. It shows up in Disk Management as Disk 0 Partition 1, and as completely empty and the filesystem entry is blank, and I cannot assign it a drive letter (option is greyed out). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling device drivers, I tried both of my otherwise fully functional USB ports, I tried hot-plugging and cold-plugging, I tried unchecking the power save option for the USB 3.0 Root Controller, I tried updating Windows and trying again; nothing has worked.
Is there a way to fix this (short of copying ~40GB of files and reformatting it from Windows 11)? It worked with Windows 10, why not 11?
Here is a screenshot of what Kubuntu recognizes the drive as:
Here is what Windows 11 sees:
Note that Windows 11 does make a sound acknowledging plugging the drive in.
I cannot right now get screenshots from Windows 10.