Flash Drive not appearing on desktop

I plugged in my flash drive and it was working and showed up on my desktop like normal, but I ejected it improperly and now it's not showing up on the desktop and when I plug it in it gives me this message: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. The optionsit gives me are Eject, Ignore, or Initialize. Please help.

Sounds like when you ejected it improperly, the flash drive was corrupted. Try to reformat it in Disk Utility.
This will of course erase everything that was on the flash drive.

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Scott:
I take it from your explanation that even though it appears in all three of the utilities that my only remaining option is to use DataRescue II. Correct?
Let's say that it is the only one that occurs to me at this time of night
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