It comes up as unallocated. Also, it shows as 980.53MiB, which even if converted to proper 1024 MB, comes up to about 935 (hardly the 8GB I'd expected). Nothing about errors or whatnot.

Also, when running gparted:

Code:
sudo gparted
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libparted : 1.7.1
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Unable to open /dev/sdb - unrecognised disk label.