Select the USB flash drive in Disk Utility. Click the 'Partition' tab, if you want to use more than one partition in the drive. A drive with two partitions, for example can have one partitioned in ExFAT and another in a Mac OS Extended format, so you can use the same drive on a Mac and a Windows computer. Step 1 – You should ensure that your SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive is connected to your personal computer. Once you lunch the application on your system you will be able to see your SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive in one of the partitions. Right click on the flash drive and choose the format partition option.
To format a flash drive on a Mac, plug in the drive and open the 'Applications' folder, the 'Utilities' folder and then 'Disk Utility.' Your flash drive should be listed in the left menu. I mounted the USB drive on Mac, ran DiskUtililty and erased using MS-DOS. Able to place files from Mac on USB drive. If I insert the USB drive on a Windows machine, Windows indicates that I need to format the drive before I can use it. I click on the “Format Disk” button, a window is displayed indicating the capacity of the drive at 200MB. Users can right-click the flash drive and select the duplicate option to backup data on Mac easily. 7 Recovering Files from Flash Drive on Mac By using the Recoverit for Mac, the process is also very easy as below.
Mac Os Format Usb Drive
How do I format my 64GB(or larger capacity) SanDisk USB flash drive with the FAT32 file system in Windows?
NOTE: Formatting deletes all data on your SanDisk USB flash drive. Please be sure to back up all data on your SanDisk product prior to formatting.
Disclaimer Notice: Use of Third-Party Software or Web Sites
There are various free third-party Windows applications that can be used to format SanDisk USB flash drives in the FAT32 file system for use in devices that do not support the exFAT file system. We recommend the following applications available for download at Softpedia:
NOTE: Please make sure to close all open instances of Windows File Explorer prior to formatting your SanDisk product with these applications. Not doing so may result in the an error when attempting to begin the format process.
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