How to use HFS formatted pen drive in Windows 7?

Question

I recently used disk utility in my mac book pro to format my 8 GB pen drive to install OS X. After that I formatted my pen drive from disk utility as FAT32 so that I would be able to use it in windows. But in windows the pen drive does not show up. When I right click on my computer and click manage and then disk management, the pen drive is listed there, but it doesn't show up in the explorer and I cant use it. I tried to do many things but I'm still not being able to use it in windows though I can use it in Mac OS X. Could anyone help? Thanks.

Solution

In Windows, in Disk Management, right-click any of the partitions on the drive and click "Delete Partition". Make sure you do this for any partition on the drive until they all are gone. Then right-click and click "Create Partition". Create a FAT32 partition and make it fill the whole space.

Now your flash drive (thumb drive or whatever you call it) can be used on any computer.