I am trying to use an usb stick that I recently formatted and it doesn’t show up in the file manager and I can’t open it.I tried lsusb and the flash drive showed up there but I don’t know how to access it.I am just so new to linux.
Hello @Maxhorse 
Normally just unplug the stick and plug it in. Pretty straight forward.
Anyway… is it listed in:
lsblk --fs
How did you format it? Which file system? Is it encrypted? Is it a new disk? Does it work on a live cd?
I unplugging it and plugging it back in was the first thing I tried and unfortunately now I am here.And also it doesn’t seem to show up with lsblk
I formatted it as ntfs using GParted.
That is strange… please run:
sudo dmesg --follow-new
Then unplug the stick and plug it in and post the output here (copy&paste)
this is the output
[13791.352074] audit: type=1130 audit(1667762730.357:378): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=unconfined msg='unit=pamac-daemon comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[13796.796138] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 21
[13806.388983] usb 1-1: reset full-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd
[13812.115181] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 22 using xhci_hcd
[13812.261846] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=4300, bcdDevice= 1.00
[13812.261860] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[13812.261867] usb 1-2: Product: USB Flash Drive
[13812.261873] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Philips
[13812.261878] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 070A8A7DBBDF5151
[13830.217025] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
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I did it this time for you. Please do it like this in the future.
Thank you 
Well here you see the partitions on that usb stick, which are assigned to sda[1-4]. So here is no problem.
Can you try mounting it?
sudo mount --verbose --mkdir /dev/sda1 /tmp/sda1
And check if it is there?
lsblk --fs
Please post the output, so we can follow you.
I am not sure if those are the partitions of the usb because I am dual booting manjaro with windows that is on sda and linux is on sdb alongside some more windows.Shouldn’t the usb be sdc?But maybe I should try mounting anyway because dmesg finds it.
Likely… but with that information I would assume it that way. 
Anyway… information are needed.
Add also:
sudo parted -l
Is it a USB3 plugged into a USB2 port? I have one that stopped being backwards compatible after being connected to a Windows 10 system.
Kinda.It’s a usb2 plugged into a usb3 port
It doesn’t show up.I am a bit scared to mount it though because this is where windows is.
I think there is nothing more coming from your side and I will not pull anything out of your nose. Good luck, I’m out of here.
I accidently fixed it!I restored it with fedora media writer because it was on my pc and I had nothing to lose.It seemed interesting when I saw it as an option.Originally I wanted to write an iso to it to see if it finds it and what will happen when I write a iso image.So yeah I don’t know how I fixed it but I did.Thanks a lot to everyone who helped!
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