Question Issue 43 with USB drive

Feb 23, 2019
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Hi! I've got a USB stick that I've used as a bootable drive a few times. During flashing a new OS due to my stupidity I've stopped the process midway through. Then I've tried to format it a few times, and now when I plug in the drive I just get issue 43: device descriptor failure.
All the guides on the web presume there's something wrong with the computer, but I know for a fact there's an issue with the drive. Is there a way to fix this?
This isn't critical and there's no data on the drive, it's just a shame. I'm open to using Linux or anything, I just don't want to pay for the fix.
The drive is an 8Gb USB 2.0 Apacer AH111.