How To Format Flash Drive For Mac And Windows

Many external hard drives come pre-formatted as FAT 32. This is a native Windows file format that can be read by Mac OS X, but is not ideal for use with Aperture. Before you begin to use your new external hard drive with Aperture, reformat it to the Mac OS Extended file system: Be sure your drive is attached and mounted.

Excel mac 2011 how to show on spreadsheet category appropriation for sinsgle purchase. Previously, we showed you. The process is very straightforward and shouldn’t take more than a minute to complete. After formatting, you are supposed to get this success message: But, there may be times when Windows cannot format your USB. For example, you plug your flash drive into the port of a PC, you right click on the disk icon and select “Format”, but it popped up an error saying “Windows was unable to complete the format”. Other times you may see this message: “The disk is write protected”So, what’s wrong?

Does that mean your USB drive is broken? In this article, we are going to show you how to fix this kind of weird USB not formatting error. All you need to do is follow the step-by-step instructions we introduce below.

Step 3: Right-click Control folder, select New > Key. Step 4: Now rename the New Key #1 folder into StorageDevicePolicies. Step 5: Right-click on StorageDevicePolicies folder, select New, and QWORD (64-bit) Value if your PC is running with a 64-bit version, or DWORD (32-bit) Value if it’s with 32-bit. Hint: see to check whether your computer is running a 32-bit version or 64-bit version. Step 6: Now rename the New Value #1 folder into WriteProtect.

Step 7: Double click the WriteProtect folder, change the Value data: into “0” and Base to “Hexadecimal”, click “OK.” Step 8: Close RegEdit by clicking the “X” icon. Step 9: Open “This PC” (Windows 10) or “My Computer” (Windows Vista/XP), and refresh it 5 times without doing anything to your USB drive, and properly eject the flash drive. Step 10: Now plug your USB drive again into your computer and format it to exFAT instead of FAT32. Still Didn’t Work? It’s time to use a third-party utility. We recommend this one called HP USB Disk Format Tool, a program also recommended by SanDisk actually ().

First off, you need to download the utility from. Then, install the utility on your Windows PC. Run the program and follow the tutorial in. Note: Using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool will restore your flash drive to the original capacity and every bit of data will be erased permanently.

One more thing: USB flash drives are easy to go wrong, if you have important files to save it’s best to use. Because it’s more reliable. So that’s all we wanted to share in this article. How do you like this troubleshooting guide? Have you managed to fix the USB error and make your flash drive usable again?

Let us know which formatting method worked for you, or which step you are stuck in. Either way, leave a comment below. No joy with any of the above alas. I had to to re-format a Lexar16gb USB-drive from FAT32 to NTSF to accommodate a large video file and play on TV. Now my Alienware WIN7 Pro laptop will not recognise the USB apart from displaying it in My Computer, Device Manager, Computer Management lists as Removable Disk (G:).

I have tried checking n re-formating this USB in another Win7 PC. I have tried checking n re-formating this USB in another Win7 PC, XP Pro laptop n MacBook Pro laptop with no success. Hi Jessica, I have a Toshiba laptop. I can’t seem to get into my computer. I can’t remember my password and it won’t let me reset my password. A message that says: No Drive this feature requires removable media, such as a USB Flash Drive.