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Format a thumb drive for both mac and pc full#
If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours to screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: read our super FAQ to see if your question is covered. This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Robin. Select the drive in the left-hand sidebar.įrom the Scheme menu, select Master Boot Record.Ĭlick Erase and follow prompts to confirm. I guess Macs can format for both windows and Mac OSX, but Windows can not format for Windows once the drive was used for a Mac.
Format a thumb drive for both mac and pc windows 7#
Launch Disk Utility (from Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility). It worked fine and now I get the 8GB, full drive storage, on my Windows 7 computer. While first ensuring you have a copy of any data on a drive you want to format as ExFAT, as formatting will erase the drive’s contents, follow these steps: Instead, pick ExFAT, its replacement (and still quite old), best used on drives of 32GB or larger capacity. Designed for an earlier time, it can’t handle files larger than 4GB.
If you’re both Mac users, swell with Mac and Windows in the mix, you might be tempted to pick FAT32 when formatting that thumb drive.īut FAT32 is distinctly out of date.
But it still crops up whenever you’re trying to put files on a USB thumb drive to hand off to someone else. For those of us who rarely transfer files physically across devices, file-format capability may be a distant memory.
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