If Windows won't format your USB drive to the FAT32 file system, remove the write protection or use CMD, PowerShell, or free software to do the same.

A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

Conclusion Repairing a corrupted USB drive in Linux involves a combination of backing up data, using filesystem repair tools, and sometimes resorting to low-level formatting.