Weird usb drive
Weird usb drive
You've got Pop OS installed and everything seems to be running properly. The USB drive isn't behaving as expected—files appear in Pop OS but not on your main Windows 10 machine. On Linux, the files match the size of the ISO you used. You used balencaEtcher to create the USB image. If you want the USB to be empty again, there’s no guarantee without more details, but you could try a clean installation or reinstalling the OS from scratch. Be cautious with formatting an old USB drive on Windows, as it can cause data loss.
It seems the instructions are likely for a Linux environment, but you mentioned using Windows tools. You can apply GParted to wipe the USB and set up a new file system like exfat, NTFS, or FAT32. The guide is available for Ubuntu at the provided link, and similar steps work with DiskPart on Windows.