USB stick and FAT formatting

My USB stick stopped working on normal PCs.
First i thought that It's broken but I've figured out that it works on my mac.
So I don't know what to do to make it visible by a PC.
I formatted it more than 5 times already and nothing. I even erased all data and all the stuff.
And I picked the FAT option. So I don't know what seems to be the problem. :S

I've had problems on more than one occasion with a USB stick formatted as FAT on the Mac, where it works fine, but isn't recognized by Windows. What I've done is just reformat it on the Windows machine. After that the sticks have worked fine on both Windows and the Mac.
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