By - guest writer. The latest trend with computers is not including a CD/DVD drive. ![]() How to Format a Flash Drive. In this Article: Windows Mac Community Q&A. This wikiHow teaches you how to change your flash drive's default file format. Formatting your flash drive will typically remove any files or folders on the drive, so make sure you back up your files before formatting your drive. Learn how to format USB flash drive using cmd in Windows 10, 8 and 7. Mivrosoft word 98 for mac. By using the command prompt, you can format any USB flash drive, pen drive or memory stick that is write protected, corrupted, damaged, unreadable, unrecognized by PC and Mobile. This helps the computers to be small and lighter. Apple has started doing this when the Macbook Air arrived on the scene. They have also included this with their latest laptops and their iMac’s. Recently photographers have switched from using CD/DVD’s to USB flash drives to deliver their digital pictures to their clients. However, some photographers have run into issues where clients are not able to read the USB flash drive, prompting the photographer to switch back to using CD/DVD’s. But don't worry. We've got the solution! This article will teach you how to format the USB flash drive so both Mac’s and PC’s can read them. There are two parts to this tutorial. One for Mac and the other for Windows 7. On the left hand side of the finder window locate “Applications”. Click on Applications to open the Applications folder.. Step 3: In the Application Windows look for the Utilities Folder. Double click on the Utilities folder. Step 4: If you haven’t already plugged in your USB flash drive in to your Mac, please do so now before going on to Step 5. Step 5: Look for the Disk Utility icon and double click it. Note: From this step on please be careful. You don’t want to erase the wrong disk. Doing this will delete all the data on the disk. ![]() If you accidentally choose the wrong disk you will not be able to recover the data without special software or even a data recovery specialist, which can be extremely expensive. Step 6: Locate your USB flash drive. Mine displays as 2 GB SMI USB DISK Media, then underneath it you will see USB DISK. Click on USB Disk.. Step 7: When you click on USB Disk you will see a few tabs. Click on the Erase tab. Step 8: You will see Format: Select ExFAT.
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