USB storage recognized on linux, not windows, mkfs in which type?

I have a key that have been infected by the famous virus which transform files to shortcut. I ve done USBFix to clean it, and put it on a raspberry pi, I saw files in normal and .lnk form, and erased everything. (sudo rm -r /media/usb/*).

But now, windows don t recognized it, so I thought I ll reformat it from the raspberry.

ls -al /sbin/ | grep mkfs bring me this:

mkfs
mkfs.bfs
mkfs.cramfs
mkfs.ext2
mkfs.ext3
mkfs.ext4
mkfs.ext4dev
mkfs.minix

Which one would be recognized by windows so I can use the device again?

Answer

You can install the ntfs-3g package which will give you mkfs.ntfs or install the dosfstools package to get mkfs.vfat assuming you're using Raspbian.

Simple as apt-get install dosfstools for example. Then you will get mkfs.vfat.