Pen drive stuck

i have a 256MB pen drive that was working and i dropped a 46MB DVPAL Quicktime movie on to it and now it will not mount on the desktop.
Is there anyway to erase it so it will mount again?
I tried Disk Utility and it will not register there either

Hi Toby;
It is also possible that the pen drive is bad. The memory in these devices has a limited life expectancy. If the power trick doesn't work for you, I would try it on another computer or two. If it doesn't work there it may be dead.
Allan
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