You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Level 1

4 points

Default scheme for FAT format?

Does anybody know if Master Boot Record is chosen as default scheme/partition map when formatting an USB stick to FAT(32) in MacOS?

With the new disk utility it isn't really clear.

On MacOS 10.14.2

Posted on Jan 26, 2019 9:49 PM

Top-ranking reply

Level 8

42,620 points

Posted on Jan 26, 2019 10:31 PM

Should be Master Boot Record. when you have Disk Utility open click on View in the menubar and select Show All devices.

Select your USB disk in the sidebar, select the Disk rather than the indented Volume, then when you select Erase you will see

Scheme, where you can select the Partition Map.

View in context

Similar questions