Intel Mac :: Format A Thumb Drive To Work?
Mar 23, 2012I have a number of thumb drives that are formatted for windows (dos I suppose), is it possible to reformat them to work with my intel imac?
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IMac PPC :: How To Format Usb Thumb Drive For Pc And Mac
Apr 24, 2012how do i format a usb thumb drive for pc or mac
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iMac
OS X :: Flash / Thumb Drive Not Work In Windows Or Ubuntu
Jan 29, 2010I got this weird issue with my 4 GB flash/thumb drive. Basically, in OS X it seems to work perfectly fine. I formatted it to HFS+ and transferred files to it, ejected it, then put it back in, the file is still there, I transferred it back to the computer, and it opens fine. However, when I put it in any machine running Windows, it'll only recognize 48 MB or something. It refuses to format the whole 4 GB.
When I plug it into an Ubuntu machine, it would recognize a "4 GB filesystem", but would throw up errors anytime I try to interact with it. And when I tried to format it with Ubuntu, it would invariably fail. From Windows and Ubuntu's views, the flash drive is no good. But then why does it *seem* to work fine in OS X? Yes, I have formatted the drive with MS-DOS (FAT) in OS X, same results in Windows and Ubuntu.
OS X :: Reformating Drive To Standard Format / Standard Usb Thumb Drive?
Nov 28, 2010All other articles I've seen online and on this site have been utterly useless for information on how to reformat this drive to a standard format. It has to be possible because all it is is a standard usb thumb drive.
I don't care if it gets rewritten as I've made a copy of it, and besides, if I really need the os to be installed again I'll just take it to the Genius Bar to have it done.
I'm looking for someone who really knows there stuff with terminal and permissions and all of that stuff to shed a little light on this subject.
Intel Mac :: 27" I7 Will Not Recognize Thumb Drive
Mar 24, 2012I have a PNY 8gb Attache thumb drive that is not recognized by my 2010 27" I7 iMac. It does not show on the desktop, disk utility, finder or system profile. However, this thumb drive works on my MacBook, 2006 24" iMac and a Dell laptop running XP.  I have 4 other drives (1-4gb) that work on all of our computers. Currently running Lion @ 10.7.3 but this problem existed on SL @ 10.6.8 also.  I have tried this drive as a FAT-32 and Mac OS journaled and the 27" still will not recognize the drive.Â
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MacBook Pro :: Format A Flash Drive Using A PC To Work On A MAC?
Mar 20, 2012I work for a post secondary school with online formatted classes. We send flash drives out to students to access video content when they are on the go, but it was pretty much made for Windows based computers. I have had a few students now who have Macs and cannot open the content or are getting a message stating the drive is not formated. I see many instructions on how to format a flash drive from a Mac to work on a Mac & PC but nothing about being able to format the flash drive using a PC so it can work on a Mac.Â
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OS X :: Imac G3 Won't Recognize My New Hard Drive / Format It To Get Work?
May 9, 2009I just bought a new 160GB hard drive for my imac G3. I know that you have to format it to get the computer to recognize it but i don't know how you do this and when I try to insert my Mac OS X install disk it just comes up with installer and when I try to quit installer it only lets you restart. So my question is, how do you format a new hard drive (160GB) on an iMac g3 to get it to recognize it?
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Feb 18, 2009i have just bought and external hard drive and want to put stuff on it. i know i hav to format it somehow using disk utility on my imac. what do i format it to so i can use it on both mac and pc? it is set to read only in "get info" and ms-dos fat in disk utility.
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Apr 13, 2012Im trying to install a new g-tech external hard drive and i'm following the instructions to format it as MAC OS EXTENDED.In disk utilities it is only giving me the option of Mac OS (Extended journaled), (journaled encrypted), (case sensitive journaled) and (case sensitive, journaled, encrypted).
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Intel Mac :: Format External Drive/memory Card?
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IMac (Intel) :: Disk Utility Can't Format USB Drive
Aug 22, 2014I've got a Transcend 8GB usb drive and i want to erase everything on it but i can't. I know that the best way to do this is the Disk Utility (Because Finder can't erase them too. When I drag and drop to the bin, it says "43 files cannot be deleted")Â
When i attempt to format, this message appears from disk utility:Â and also, another message appears at the same time.I just wanted to format my disk. But i can still see the content in the disk. But can't copy them to desktop.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iMac G5 from 2005, but it's intel.
OS X :: Format External Hard Drive In Apple Partition Map Format?
Nov 5, 2009I'm running Snow Leopard on my new Macbook Pro. I've got a 1.5TB External hard drive that I'm trying to figure out how to format in HFS+ with Apple Partition Map. I can figure out how to format in HFS using Disk Utility, however it still does it in GUID format and I do not know how to do it in Apple Partition Map.
Googleing this for hours has lead with all kinds of information on how to go to GUID FROM Apple Partition Map but not the other way around. I know GUID is the new hottness.. but this drive will be used exclusively to connect to my XBOX 360 and it supposedly only reads HFS+ when its formatted with Apple Partition Map. (I have tried it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GUID, and the XBOX does NOT recognize it) I do not want to use Fat 32, (I know that that is the other major option) beacuse it limits file size.
Intel Mac :: Format External USB Storage Drive To Read Mac And Windows Files?
Apr 17, 2012How do I format an external USB Storage Drive to read Mac and Windows Files?
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OS X :: Installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS From Thumb Drive
Oct 9, 2010I'm trying to install ubuntu from a thumb drive. Basically, I'm converting the .iso to an .img, and restore the thumb drive from the .img, trying to make it bootable. I'm following the procedure form the ubuntu website. Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal to 'paste' the full path without typing and risking type errors.
Download the desired file
Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight)
Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g., hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso)
Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file automatically.
Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices
Insert your flash media
Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)
Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)
Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img or ./ubuntu.dmg).
Using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster.
If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.
If you see the error dd: /dev/diskN: Resource busy, make sure the disk is not in use. Start the 'Disk Utility.app' and unmount (don't eject) the drive.
Run diskutil eject/dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes
Restart your Mac and press alt while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB-Stick
Everything goes through fine, except, when I restart my mac to see the boot options. All I see is Macintosh HD
MacBook Pro :: Can Use Lion Thumb Drive
Feb 7, 2012i have a 2011 macbook pro (md313) and i want to reinstall lion and due to low speed internet connection i cant use recovery partition can i use lion tumb drive wich is available on apple store?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 30, 2012I'd like to protect my thumb (flash) drives and want to know the easiest effective way to do so. All the freeware and shareware programs out there only add to my confusion.Â
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Apr 4, 2012Since OS X 10.7 comes as a download from the app store, does anyone know if it is possible to install the OS on a thumb drive, in my case so that I could run diagnostic software on the system drive by booting from the thumb drive?
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