Formatted Usb For Mac

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So, I've searched all over for a solution to this issue, but it appears as though no one has had the issue, or perhaps has figured out the solution. So, I have two Mac computers. One is used as a media server (My Mac Mini) and the other is my commuter laptop, MacBook Pro. I just installed Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro and while the installation was going I downloaded the Boot Camp drivers for the MacBook Pro on my Mac Mini, which I later was going to put on a thumb drive and take to the laptop to install the drivers.

So I went into 'Disk Utility'. Which is a completely different look, now that I have El Capitan installed, and formatted my 8 GB USB Thumb drive with the FAT system. Spectrum I then uploaded my Boot Camp drivers (for the MacBook Pro) onto the thumb drive then went over to my laptop and inserted the usb drive. Immediately, Windows 7 pops up saying, 'Format disk?' Because it evidently couldn't recognize the file system. I've done everything I can think of to fix this. I even switched to other USB Thumb drives, but each time, Windows doesn't recognize the FAT file system on the thumb drive after being formatted by the Disk Utility app.

I tried to format the thumb drives in NTFS, but Windows will only recognize 200 mb of the USB thumb drives. Somehow, after Disk Utility formats the thumb drive with FAT, Windows 7 won't recognize ANY of the file structure except for the 200 mb of reserved space on the thumb drive. Does anyone know how to fix this? I ended up finding a new thumb drive still in the package that hadn't been touched by the Disk Utility app, and was able to load the Boot Camp files onto it. Wouldn't you know, Windows recognized it right away! So it appears to me, there's something wrong happening when Disk Utility is trying to format the system structure of the drive.

Software to Unformat USB Drive. Download Now. Apart from all this, it facilitates you to retrieve lost volumes from formatted Mac hard drive at your fingertips. With this application user can recover files from formatted USB drive, Memory card, CF card, Flash drive and SSD on Mac OS X. Give the partition a name and select exFAT for the format. Free fashion design software for mac. Click Erase to finish. Your exFAT-formatted drive or partition can now be used for both Windows and Mac.

Perhaps a bug? I think that, maybe, emphasizing the 'master boot record' would have been in order. The reformatter comes up with some other default format for FAT (and others) and you need to change it to 'master boot record'. Why they didn't default to Master Boot Record, which is the normal format that any user would want is beyond me. The other difficulty that I have encountered is, if you ever remove the drive from an Apple computer without ejecting first, you're toast.

I guess there may be some way to recover, though I've yet to find it. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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Drive Preparation 1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button.

Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.