Flash drive problem

Ok so the other day, I put my flash drive in and do what I need to do. I go to eject it and it won't eject. I tried doing it in finder and on the desktop, neither way worked. I had to be somewhere so I just took it out without ejecting. So then a few days later I notice that finder still says my flash drive is there, naturally when I clicked it said no content. The icon isn't on the desktop though. I just reinserted my flash drive and it still shows up in finder, but still says no content, but it didn't pop up on my desktop.
I was also having problems with it recognizing my ipod. One last thing, I tried to click "about this mac" to figure out my right version of OS X, but nothing would come up. I got it December 2006 though. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Hi memanzo
When a USB memory drive won't eject, it's normally because the computer is still writing information to it. All write requests to the device are queued up and they carry on in the background while you're getting on with something else. This is because the devices are quite slow compared to the hard disc. Once all queued up writes have finished, you can eject the device.
If you do pull out a device without properly ejecting it then the remaining queued up writes can't happen and the device may be corrupted. I recommend you use Utilities/Disk Utility to test its file system integrity before trying to store any more information on it. If it is corrupted then use the same utility to reformat it.
Bob

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