If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to format a USB flash drive on Windows 11 using File Explorer, Settings app, Disk Management tool, Command Prompt, and PowerShell.

Mac 911 How to format a USB thumb drive for both Mac and Windows The Mac/Windows-compatible ExFat format allows larger file sizes than the old FAT32.

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use.

If your USB drive is showing up as 2 different drives on your Windows PC, clean and repartition USB using Command Prompt and see if it helps.

Do you want to delete the UEFI NTFS partition from the USB Drive create by Rufus? Follow this guide to remove UEFI NTFS Partition from USB.

After returning to Mac OS X, the U3 System partition was at last nowhere to be found! I repartitioned the flash drive in Disk Utility, giving it the Mac-friendly format and partition map schemes.

Regardless of which option you select, your USB drive should now be formatted as FAT32 and ready for use. Much like on Windows, you can format an external drive on Mac with just a few clicks. You can ...