When you format your flash drive using these utilities, you can use your stick on multiple platforms without any problem. This small application runs on Windows and all kinds of flash drives. ![]() ![]() But if you want a quick solution without any trouble, I recommend you HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. There are plenty of them like GParted (Gnome Partition Edior). You need to reformat the flash drive using additional tools. The size of the new partition will show 16 GB. Click just below the volume scheme and set it to 1. OS X ignores this partition and will see the entire flash drive as one partition. Click on that and you can see a small square which is the 200 MB partition and a larger square which is the second partition. Why ? When you format your flash drive using Disk Utility, it creates a 200 MB protective partition in front of the main partition. The stick is already formatted on Mac OS X and working fine on OS X with correct size. ![]() When I insert the flash drive on a Windows computer, Windows (XP, Vista.etc) sees the USB Stick as removable media and will not let me open the flash drive to view the contents, it only forces me to format the stick at 200MB only. Everything works fine on Mac, but not on Windows. Well, I have 4GB USB Stick and decided to format as FAT32 using Disk Utility to use this flash disk both on Mac & Windows.
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