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5.Click the Erase button. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will show the progress of the disk’s reformatting. Your drive will be formatted to its full capacity as FAT32.
6.Quit the Disk Utility program. You are finished!
7.After reinitializing, the custom icon for the
With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 and on Mac OS X machines.
Limitations with FAT32
There are some limitations when using FAT32.
The
NOTE: You could format your drive on a Windows machine FAT32. However, Windows currently limits FAT32 partitions to only 32GB in size.
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