How to format a flash drive on Mac

Users who have not long switched from the Windows operating system to Mac, much becomes not clear, because the two of these OS are completely different. The same utilities and functions in them are in various places. This is what happens when the need to format the memory card on the Mac OS system. Read this article, and this question will disappear from your head.

Connect the USB flash drive to a laptop or computer.

If you were enough to simply click on the field "Format", then everything happens on the Mac system a little longer, but not more difficult. Open the Disk Utility program, each Mac user must be aware of it and its functions, one of them you will learn now.

To open it, clamp the Ctrl + Space key combination, and then in the SPOTLIGHT search box, enter the name of the Disk Utility program. Either the Finder go to the program block, then select "Utilities" - "Disk Utility".

As soon as the program opens, you will see that it is divided into several workspaces. In the left part there is a list of connected devices, find your memory card among them.

On the right side, select the "Erase" button at the top. Click on the file system format, for example, MS - DOS FAT and back click on the word "erase ...".

Now the system will ask you to confirm the action. Agree with this by clicking on "Yes" and formatting a flash drive will begin.

After completion, you can extract a device from a computer or phone, and use immediately. If there are problems in the formatting process, pay attention, whether drivers are installed on your personal computer. If the input drivers work incorrectly, the disk utility may not be incorrectly read the size of your memory card, as well as not to give the format of the flash drive. In this case, first reinstall the device drivers, and only then, make sure that they work correctly using the diagnostic program, proceed to formatting on Mac OS.