Help with Disk Utility

I have a removable usb flash drive that I've been using for a while. Occasionally I need to erase it with disk utility to remove all of the past information it has held. This time around though the drive doesn't seem to be created (I'm not sure if I'm saying that the right way or not).
I've included a photo here:
http://northeasternxposure.com/help/drive.png
Normally there is the "983.0 MB VBTM . . ." drive with the "UNTITLED" one below it. As you can see the "UNTITLED" drive doesn't look like a drive, but has the icon of a document. And at the bottom it shows the capacity, yet none of it is available. This is why it won't mount. I've tried to redo it multiple times with no luck. Hopefully someone knows a setting or something that I should change to repair this problem.

I went into Finder and it could still see the drive, yet not access it for some reason. So what I did was log out and then back in and everything was working fine again. I've got no idea why that problem had occurred, but thanks for the quick responses.
And I always do remember to mark helpful and solved. Thanks!

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    I just ran disk utility to verify my hard drive and the report says this:
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    Checking Catalog file.
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    Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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    Checking volume bitmap.
    Checking volume information.
    Volume Header needs minor repair
    The volume The volume sh HD needs to be repaired.
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    Volume needs repair
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    I just ran the repair utility via the installation disk, and at first I got this:
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    Invalid node structure
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    things seem to freeze up when I'm doing lots of multitasking.
    Because you have serious directory corruption.
    But maybe it's time for a new machine sooner than I planned?
    This is repairable by you. It's possible a piece of hardware, think bad RAM, could cause this directory corruption.
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  • I can no longer repair permissions with Disk Utility, v. 13

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    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoDialogArtworkView .nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoDialogInfoView.ni b”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoDialogInfoView.ni b”
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    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoDialogMultipleInf oView.nib”
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    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialog.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialog.nib”
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    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogAdvancedVi ew.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogAppleTVVie w.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogAppleTVVie w.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogDevicesVie w.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogDevicesVie w.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogGeneralVie w.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogGeneralVie w.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogMessageVie w.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogMessageVie w.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogParentalVi ew.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogParentalVi ew.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogPlaybackVi ew.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogPlaybackVi ew.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogSharingVie w.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogSharingVie w.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogStoreView. nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PrefsDialogStoreView. nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Printing.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Printing.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ProgressDialog.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ProgressDialog.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForLongString.n ib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForLongString.n ib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForPassword.nib ”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForPassword.nib ”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForShortString. nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PromptForShortString. nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Report.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Report.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SelectString.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SelectString.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SelectStringWide.nib” ; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SelectStringWide.nib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SmartPlaylistEditor.n ib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SmartPlaylistEditor.n ib”
    Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/StoreAuthDialog.nib”; should be drwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/StoreAuthDialog.nib”
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    Repaired “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/en_GB.lproj/UniversalAccess.nib”
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    I've looked all over the Internet and it seems more people have had this error but then with making the image, they also suggest unmounting the destination disk before trying to restore but my destination is Macintosh HD, i cant really unmount that can i?
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