Many users that who just from Windows to Macs may encounter a strange question – Why on the Mac OS system cannot copy files to the USB stick that can be used well under Windows? In fact, the cause of this problem, the possibility of 99% is that the USB stick using the NTFS file system which is the default file system of Windows, but the Mac OS cannot support this file system device. But FAT32 file system can be operated on both Windows and Mac, therefore, we only need to format the device as FAT32 to solve this problem. Follow this article will show you how to do.
Step 1: Connect USB stick to Mac computer, open Disk Utility.
Step 2: Select your USB stick from the left side of Disk Utility.
Step 3: Choose Erase tab from the right, it is equivalent to the formatting action under Windows.
Step 4: Click erase, after the operation is completed, USB disk was formatted as FAT32 format, and it can read and write on both the Mac and Windows PC.
FAT32 is the most widely recognized and most user-friendly file system format so far. However, FAT32 also has a very fatal flaw is that this format cannot supported to store in a single file larger than 4GB, so it is impossible to store high-definition movies in this format. If you need to store individual files larger than 4GB, you can choose to format the device as exFAT file system, but this file system is not so good compatibility for some older systems, and it is also very very slow in some USB drive. So, for general use, FAT32 USB file system is still preferred.
About author: The author is blogger on Kvisoft.com. Kvisoft Data Recovery for MAC is undelete files mac software specially developed for Mac OS. It can help you to recover files from USB, and recover lost and deleted files from formatted or damaged hard drive as well as from external hard drives, Flash drive, memory card, memory stick, mobile phones, digital cameras, iPods, Android and other media storage devices.
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