I think I'll format it. Maybe fix it.
That'll fix it good!

First I inspect the man page and find out that I need to know how big it is:

bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ df /dev/sdd1
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1       30867472 26201360   4666112  85% /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ df -h /dev/sdd1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1        30G   25G  4.5G  85% /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk

So I would like to be able to transfer it between operating sytems. What
should I type?

     mkfs -tmsdos /dev/sdd1
or
     mkfs -tvfat /dev/sdd1

or should I not deal with the microsoft world with this drive because of
the trouble I'm having with it?

the man page says that I NEED to put the size option in so should I say
'30G' or '30867472000'?
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:-)~MIKE~(-: