Flash Drive Isn't appearing

Just bought a new flash drive.....get home and plugged it up to my macbook pro and it isn't showing up....I went in to disk utility and it shows there but it can't be mounted.....really need help

Here is the information I retrieved on the disk:
Name : DS Secure + Media
          Type :           Disk
          Partition Map Scheme :           Unformatted
          Disk Identifier :           disk2
          Media Name :           DS Secure + Media
          Connection Bus :           USB
          USB Serial Number :           90BB1300FFFF0064
          Writable :           Yes
          Ejectable :           Yes
          Location :           External
          Total Capacity :           16.01 GB (16,005,464,064 Bytes)
          Disk Number :           2
          Partition Number :           0
          S.M.A.R.T. Status :           Not Supported

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