Format Flash Drive Mac Fat32
There are many file types available when you format a USB drive on Mac, such as exFAT, FAT32, JHFS+, etc. For a complete description and compatibility list (as not all formats are compatible with all operating systems), see this article. For reference purposes, exFAT and FAT32 are compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. To format the USB drive to FAT32, follow the next steps: Step 1. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac computer. Step 2.Go to Applications Utilities Double click and open Disk Utility. You should go ahead and format your storage drive with exFAT instead of FAT32, assuming that all devices you want to use the drive support exFAT. You may notice that in NTFS is marked “Partially” under the Compatible with macOS column. This is because an NTFS-based drive can be read by macOS but you can’t write data to the drive. If you have an NTFS drive you can use macOS’ Disk Utility to reformat it to FAT32. This is simple to do and means the data on your drive/USB stick can be read and written on both Macs and PCs. FAT32 Formatter for Mac If you're using a Mac, you don't need special software to format a USB drive in the FAT32 format. You can use Apple's built-in Disk Utility. Before you format the drive, make sure there's nothing valuable on it that's not also backed up elsewhere, since all data will be lost.
Format Flash Drive Mac Fat32 Ntfs
To do it on the Mac, plug in the flash drive, and open Disk Utility (in your /Applications/Utilities folder). The drive should appear in the list on the left of the DU window.
Select the drive, then click the Erase tab. On that tab, select MS-DOS (FAT) as the volume format, choose a disk name if you want to, then click Erase, and wait.
That said, if your drive just 'didn't work any more' after a while, it may be faulty and it's possible that re-formatting it won't help. (All flash drives do have a finite number of read/write cycles before they don't work reliably any more, too, although it's unlikely you've reached that limit through normal usage.)
Format Flash Drive Mac Fat32 Drive
Aug 23, 2008 1:22 PM