USB Wristband not mounting

I've recently purchased a generic 2 GB USB flash wristband and started to fail not mounting. It was formatted as FAT 32 (Via Disk Utility). I have Tiger 10.4.11 and Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6.5.1 installed. I've tried to re-format it both as MS-DOS and Mac OS Extended but after being ejected it doesn't mount again. A dialog appears saying that the Finder cannot recognize the device and it gives the option to initialize, ignore or eject it.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

I don't know much about Paragon. My inclination would be to uninstall it as a trial and see if that is the problem.
Those flash drives don't last forever, and maybe not even a few days. If you have access to another Mac see if it presents the same problems on another computer, preferably one without third party drive modifiers.
You say you have Paragon "6.5.1 "5.6.1?" installed. Do you have Paragon on your Tiger machine too? I presume we are talking about a Tiger machine somewhere here because this is the Tiger forum.
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