Formatting in context of USB or Hard Drives means deleting everything from that drive and rebuilding the file system so that we can use it with an Operating System. And we usually perform formatting in our USB or External Hard Drive when we want to get rid of viruses, or we want to clean the disk as it was when we purchased it. Also when we buy a new USB or Hard Drive, it often comes with windows compatible not the mac so formatting it even needed in this case.

So in this post, I will tell you “How to Format USB on Mac?”. How to Format USB on MAC? If you never formatted a USB drive then don’t worry it is effortless.

Quickbooks 2014 download free. And here I will tell you two answers to this question that “How to Format USB on Mac?”.聽First, we will go with the straightforward way of doing it; then we will move to the easy way. 馃槈 So first, we will use the Disk Utility program, which is a GUI and very straightforward so that any kid can do it. Then in the next method, we will format USB drive from mac terminal. So let’s start. Diskutil eraseDisk JHFS + Belal disk2 • In the above command eraseDisk is the format command.

Then comes JHFS+ is the Disk Type which is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then Belal is the name of the disk that will be assigned after formatting.

For desktops using a USB drive, there are only two differences to be concerned about. FAT32 is the older version of FAT and can't handle file sizes larger than 4GB. ExFAT is not compatible with computers older than Windows Vista or Mac OS X 10.6.5. How to Format a Drive on a Mac. If you want to use a different file system on your USB drive, you’ll need to “format” it. Again, formatting a drive will erase it completely, so make sure you have everything backed up that you want to keep. To format a drive on a Mac, you’ll need the built-in Disk Utility application.

Finally we are writing the name of the disk that we need to format, which disk2 is in this case. Now hit enter. • And the disk is formatted. 馃槈 Super Easy, isn’t it? So that’s it for this tutorial friends if you got some problems then tell me in the comments. And if you think this post was useful for you, or it helped you in any way, then I request you to please SHARE it with your friends. I hope you got the answer very clearly that “How to Format USB on Mac?”.

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Format USB drive for both Mac and PC use I bet some of you have this dilemma: you have a USB drive and want to use it on both Mac and PC. If you format the USB drive to HFS+ File System, it will not be supported by Windows computer. And if you format it to NTFS, it will not be fully supported in Mac Operating System.