Jan 09, 2020 Format Flash Drive Mac with Disk Utility Your Mac computer comes with a handy utility appropriately called Disk Utility, which can be used to format any storage device. To format your USB flash drive with the exFAT file system: select the USB drive you want to format from your file explorer, right click and select “Format”, then in the format dialogue, choose exFAT under the File System drop down menu.

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Flash drive also called pen drives that basically used for exchanging data such movies, files, documents and some other kind of stuff. It was way to easily to move or copy files from computer to flash drive.

You’ve probably know that flash drive was external device and when you connected it with your computer it comes with some virus that harmful for your computer system. But you can easily use scanning program to scan the flash drive to remove all harmful virus.

So to remove unwanted stuff and viruses from flash drive you’ve to make it format using a flash drive formatting tools. If this article we demonstrate how you can format flash drive on mac.

Also Read : How To Delete Files From Flash Drive on Mac

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There are several applications available online for formatting USB drives such as 321Soft USB Flash Recovery for Mac ,Data Recovery for Mac, and Disk Drill . These third party tools allow to format flash drive on your mac.

But if want to format a flash drive without using third party tools then. In this case you can use disk utility program to format pen drive on mac.

Step 1 :

Connect your Flash Drive with mac through USB port

Step 2 :

Now launch Disk Utility now move to Applications > Utility.

Step 3 :

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When you located your flash drive name on left side panel, Click on it

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Step 4 :

Go to Ease tab. Change ‘Format’ to ”Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. After that named the device if you want to change the name of the your flash drive.

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Step 5 :

In this final step Click on the Ease button to conform you want to format the device.