Format Flash Drive For Mac And Pc

Posted By admin  On 15.09.21

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A new external hard drive or a USB flash drive that you just bought can be used with both Mac and PC, but not always straight out of the box because most of them (external hard drives or USB flash drive) are sold in NTFS format, which is fully compatible only with Windows. Here's how to format a new flash drive (Thumb Drive/USB Stick) on a Mac for both PC and MAC. I use the exfat format so you can go between the two of them.

Flash drive also called pen drives that basically used for exchanging data such movies, files, documents and some other kind of stuff. It was way to easily to move or copy files from computer to flash drive.

You’ve probably know that flash drive was external device and when you connected it with your computer it comes with some virus that harmful for your computer system. But you can easily use scanning program to scan the flash drive to remove all harmful virus.

So to remove unwanted stuff and viruses from flash drive you’ve to make it format using a flash drive formatting tools. If this article we demonstrate how you can format flash drive on mac.

Format Flash Drive For Mac And Pc On Mac

Attach the drive to your Mac. Launch Disk Utility (from Applications Utilities Disk Utility). Select the drive in the left-hand sidebar. From the Format menu, select ExFAT. Part 3: How to Format USB Flash Drive to FAT32 on Mac? If you want to use a USB drive on both Mac and Windows, then you need to format the drive to the format supported by both systems. And FAT32 is the format that both Mac and Windows PC support. In other words, you can read and write FAT32 file format on both the operating system.

Also Read : How To Delete Files From Flash Drive on Mac

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There are several applications available online for formatting USB drives such as 321Soft USB Flash Recovery for Mac ,Data Recovery for Mac, and Disk Drill . These third party tools allow to format flash drive on your mac.

But if want to format a flash drive without using third party tools then. In this case you can use disk utility program to format pen drive on mac.

Step 1 :

Connect your Flash Drive with mac through USB port

Step 2 :

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Now launch Disk Utility now move to Applications > Utility.

Step 3 :

When you located your flash drive name on left side panel, Click on it

Step 4 :

Format A Flash Drive For Mac And Pc

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Go to Ease tab. Change ‘Format’ to ”Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. After that named the device if you want to change the name of the your flash drive.

Step 5 :

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In this final step Click on the Ease button to conform you want to format the device.