To format / reformat the drive in Mac OS X Mavericks and below: Connect the External disk drive or Flash Drive and open Disk Utility.app from /Applications/Utilities/ folder. Select the External drive or Flash Drive on the left that shows the capacity. Click on the Erase option across the top in the main window. Launch Disk Utility. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac. If there are any files on the drive you. Disk Utility application in MacOS is the best option to format a flash drive on MacOS. You can launch this app in two ways. Step 1: Press Space while holding your command button. A search box will open. Erase the USB disk using exFAT. ExFAT is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. To erase the disk, open Disk Utility (Applications Utilities folder), select the USB drive in the sidebar, go to Erase tab and select exFAT on Format. 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. Select your USB flash drive on the sidebar, choose Erase. Rename the USB flash drive, choose.
Table of ContentsFlash 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.
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 :
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 :
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 :
Format Flash Drive With Macbook
In this final step Click on the Ease button to conform you want to format the device.