By default, Windows does not provide an option to format a 64GB USB drive to FAT32 using the built-in formatting tools. This limitation is due to the design of the FAT32 file system itself, which has a maximum file size and partition size limit. The FAT32 file system has a maximum fi...
Will reformatting a Thumb Drive to FAT32 make it Readable on Windows? I want to share some photos on a thumb drive with a family member who uses a Windows machine. If I reformat the drive with the photos to FAT32 format (which I understand is readable with Windows), can anyone confirm...
When opening documents on a USB thumb Brive, specifically in Garageband, I can't save them back to the thumb drive (formatted Fat32). "You don't have permission." Check permissions on the thumb drive, and it says I have "custom permissions." No option to change. I know that I can ...
Copying to USB 3.0 thumb drive in FAT32 format fails due to time out Why, after 50 some years of personal computing, can Mac users still NOT simply transfer files to Windows based media, especially thumb drives -- and please don't even bother explaining how to start in recovery mode and...
Do you know what is the best file system for a USB drive? Should you choose FAT32 or NTFS while formatting the USB flash drive? Here we will explain reasons and give answers to whether you should format USB drive to FAT32 or NTFS with the best USB format
I use a 128 GB thumb drive formatted with exfat fs. This worked fine on my old Mac. When I plug in the drive using a USB-C to USB-3 dongle the read performance is abysmal, in the KB/s range. Any ideas? I was thinking about reformatting the drive but that would mean losing ...
There is only the one choice offered for MS-DOS style formatting -- all the other choices are MAC OS style formatting. There doesn't appear to be any way to get Disk Utility to apply FAT16 format to that partition. (I need FAT16 in order to use this USB drive for doing a ...
drive, external hard drive, SSD, SD card, or USB flash drive to FAT32 file system whatever the size of the drive. In addition to FAT32 file system, it also enables you to format a partition to exFAT, NTFS, EXT4, EXT3 and EXT2 format. The formatting process is quite straightforward:...
(I made sure I don't have anything else plugged beside the keyboard, mouse and WinInstall USB2 thumb drive) Would you or anyone else able to help me on this matter? APFS Container (1 found) | +-- Container disk2 78390E55-60CB-4373-8170-F720CEDCE2F2 === APFS Container Reference: d...
I was formatting a flash drive on my Mac as I have before to FAT32 so I can use it on my PC as well. Disk Utility for some reason no longer has FAT32 as an option. It was replaced with FAT, which ***. Anyone else have this issue or a fix?Mac...