My USB is basically gone after 'diskutil zeroDisk /dev/disk2'. What do I do? [closed]

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My USB was screwed up after I did something wrong while using bootcamp (don't remember the details).

I did a bunch of stuff but it doesn't really matter as here's the current situation:

My USB won't show up on the desktop. It's in Disk Utility, with the main disk seeming normal and WinInstall blanked out and saying 'Not Mounted'. In previous attempts, whenever I tried to erase or mount it, the usb would disappear. I do not know what I should do anymore. It has currently disappeared again and I'm reinserting the USB to get it back up in Disk Utility

(Please don't mention Finder>Preferences>External Disks because I checked it already)

(First Aid also fails to do anything with the WinInstall volume, but it succeeds in the general VenderCo disk that's above it.)

I need to format the WinInstall volume but do not need the files on this USB to be recovered, although if it were possible it would be great.

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There is so much going on with your operating system and in the comments, I would take the USB drive to another computer to test it. Then you can have possibly two follow on questions.

One to address erasing a USB or knowing it is flakey.

A second question where you ask how to get your Mac in a desired state. (Like how to erase install macOS.)