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MacOS and Windows support different file systems.įAT32 is commonly used in SD card, memory card, USB drive, flash drive, external hard drive, etc. See the tutorial: How to recover data after format? Understanding file systems If you mistakenly formatted a wrong USB flash drive, recovering lost data is possible. Once the formatting process is finished, you can store the files in this newly formatted USB flash drive or external hard drive. Click on the Erase button to format USB flash drive.

If you want to format USB hard drive to NTFS file system, you need to install a NTFS for Mac tool on your Mac.ĥ. If you're not sure which file system you should choose, find more information from " Understanding file systems" section.

Select which file system (FAT32, exFAT, HFS+ or APFS) you want to use and give it a name. Select USB flash drive from the storage device list on the left and click Erase in the Disk Utility toolbar.Ĥ. You will see Disk Utility main window, with a storage device list on the left and various disk management options on the right.Īt the bottom of Disk Utility main window, there are storage device details, including disk description, disk type, connection type, total capacity, write status, S.M.A.R.T. Go to Applications folder and Utilities and open Disk Utility. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac computer.Ģ. Step-by-step tutorial to format USB flash drive on Mac:ġ. Mac computer has a built-in utility called Disk Utility, which can be used to format any storage device. In this post, we are taking how to format USB drive or flash drive on Mac. Some USB drives or flash drives have to be formatted first before you can store files. However, not every USB drive or flash drive can be used at once. Nowadays, when you buy a USB drive or flash drive, you can use it right out of the box with your Mac. Posted by Tim to Mac Data Recovery Tips on May 9th, 2021