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Aug 13,2019 • Filed to: USB Format • Proven solutions

If your USB flash drive is not recognized by your Apple Mac computer because it has a different format it is kind of difficult to format it. You may not know how to format your USB flash drive to make it compatible with your Mac system but we do and will show you how to do it in this article.

Overview of Format USB Drive on Mac

Mac Systems have a different OS to Windows and this is where most of the problems like. Most USB flash drives on sale are designed to work with Windows operating systems that run on Fat32. Mac devices on the other hand run on either Mac OS extended or APFS. If your drive is an APFS format or a Mac OS format you can format your drive easily but if it is a FAT32 format this may be a problem. If you have made the mistake of buying a flash drive they runs on a FAT32 file format you don’t have to discard it altogether. There are ways to format a flash drive that runs on a different format and we will show you steps to take to remedy the situation.

Step to Format a USB Drive to FAT32 on Your Mac

Plug the drive into the Mac system

Choose Applications- Utilities then Disk Utility

From the sidebar pick USB drive

From the toolbar select Erase

Name the formatted disk and choose either ExFat or MS-DOS(FAT32) from the menu

Select erase to format your drive depending on the selection you have picked (FAT32 or ExFAT)

Convert/Format USB Flash drive to FAT32 using Command Line

Connect Flash drive to Mac

Tap CMD and space bar to open Spotlight. Type “terminal” and press Enter

Type in :diskutill land locate your USB drivr

Type in sudo.diskutilerasediskFAT32MBRFormat/Dev/disk2

Sudo will give you the user right

Diskutill will call in utility program

Erasedisk commands will format

FAT32 will set the file system

MBRFormat will tell disk to format with Master Boot

/Dev/disk2 will be the USB drive location

You will have to wait a while for the format to be completed. Type in :diskutill to check if the process was successful.

If you follow these steps religiously you should be able to resolve the issue quickly.

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