This tells me right away that this is a Windows formatted drive and everything that they have included here is meant for use in Windows. Now, what's on it is, you can see right here, a dot exe file. I just took it out of the packaging and I can now select it and see what's on it. I have two external drives hooked up and now when I plug in the USB flash drive I'm going to see that appear here as well. On the left side I can see on the sidebar Favorites and Devices.
It's pointed to my Documents folder but that doesn't really matter. I've just got a plain Finder window open here.
#Format a drive for mac how to#
So, I'm going to show you what happens when you first plug in one of these USB drives and then how to get it reformatted so it's ready for your Mac. You can keep it formatted Windows, access the files on your Mac and on Windows as well.īut if you only use Mac, like I do, then you want to reformat it to use just for Mac. This will be great if you actually want to use it to go between Mac and Windows. Now the problem is that most of these drives you are going to get are going to be already formatted but for Windows. You got it in a store or ordered it online and you want to start using it with your Mac. So say you have just purchased a new USB flash drive. On today's episode let's look at how to format a brand new USB thumb drive.
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