Formatting a new USB Stick

How do you format a new USB Stick to fat 32 on a iMac?

iMac 27", 10.14

Posted on Feb 6, 2019 7:59 AM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2019 8:08 AM

Here are the detail tips to format USB to FAT32 now:


1. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac computer.


2.Go to Applications > Utilities > Double click and open Disk Utility.


3. Select your USB flash drive on the sidebar, choose Erase.


4. Rename the USB flash drive, choose the format as MS-DOS (FAT) for Format, Master Boot Record for Scheme.


Then click Erase.


Wait for the process to complete, then you’ll get an empty new USB flash drive with FAT32 as the file system. You can reuse it for saving data again.

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Feb 6, 2019 8:08 AM in response to Kpass

Here are the detail tips to format USB to FAT32 now:


1. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac computer.


2.Go to Applications > Utilities > Double click and open Disk Utility.


3. Select your USB flash drive on the sidebar, choose Erase.


4. Rename the USB flash drive, choose the format as MS-DOS (FAT) for Format, Master Boot Record for Scheme.


Then click Erase.


Wait for the process to complete, then you’ll get an empty new USB flash drive with FAT32 as the file system. You can reuse it for saving data again.

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