Format Flash Drive For Mac And Pc 2019

Formatting or reformatting is the efficient and secure way to remove all data on the USB flash drive. It is very simple to format USB flash drive on Windows PC. However, it is not easy to format the USB flash drive under Mac OS. Actually, if we want to format a USB flash drive under Mac OS, we should find USB flash drive formatting software at. Click the drive name on the left side list in Disk Utility, and then click the “Erase” tab Click the pulldown menu alongside “Format” and select “MS-DOS (FAT)” Optionally, give the drive a name Click the “Erase” button to format the drive for Mac & Windows PC compatibility.

If you're moving it between Mac and Windows, you want to format your flash drive with the FAT32 filesystem. It shouldn't matter whether you format it on your Mac or on a Windows machine.
To do it on the Mac, plug in the flash drive, and open Disk Utility (in your /Applications/Utilities folder). The drive should appear in the list on the left of the DU window.
Select the drive, then click the Erase tab. On that tab, select MS-DOS (FAT) as the volume format, choose a disk name if you want to, then click Erase, and wait.
That said, if your drive just 'didn't work any more' after a while, it may be faulty and it's possible that re-formatting it won't help. (All flash drives do have a finite number of read/write cycles before they don't work reliably any more, too, although it's unlikely you've reached that limit through normal usage.)

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by Shirly Chen, updated on 2019-10-21 to Mac Data Wipe

In 2012, Apple introduced iMac and Mac mini with a new storage option: the Fusion drive. A Fusion drive is actually two drives: a 128 GB SSD (Solid State Drive) and a standard 1 TB or 3 TB platter-based hard drive. The Fusion drive combines the SSD and the hard drive into a single volume that the OS sees as a single drive.

Formatting a Fusion Drive is simple, but if you also want to permanently erase data on the Fusion Drive, it becomes a bit complicated. Before you sell, donate your Mac computer, you’d better format the Fusion Drive and permanently erase the sensitive data on the Fusion Drive.

Disk Utility can help you format Fusion Drive on Mac, other disk management tools including MacClean360 also can help you format Fusion Drive, but please note that the formatted data can be recovered by data recovery software. So, you need another tools to do the high-level format and permanently erase your data with safe data erasure method.

Download Fusion Drive disk format tool for Mac

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac is a ideal tool for formatting and wiping Fusion Drive on Mac. It can help you format and wipe entire Fusion Drive by only 1click. Once the data is erased by Fusion Drive, the data is gone forever, can’t be recovered by data recovery software. So, before you format Fusion Drive with this data erasure tool, you’d better backup your data to another hard disk drive.

Format/wipe Fusion Drive on Mac with Super Eraser

Here are the steps to format and wipe Fusion Drive on Mac:

Step 1: Open DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac.

Download and install DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac on your Mac computer, run it from Launchpad. You will see three data erasure modes and other useful tools.

Step 2: Format and wipe Fusion Drive.

Choose mode “Wipe Hard Drive”. Then select the Fusion Drive and wipe it with this mode. All the data on the Fusion Drive will be permanently erased.

But, if the Mac OS is installed on the Fusion Drive, the Fusion Drive can’t be formatted. DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac also offers another modes to permanently erase data from Fusion Drive on Mac.

Shred files from Fusion Drive

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This mode can help you selectively shred files/folders from Fusion Drive. Just add files from Fusion Drive to the erasure list, and then permanently erase them.

Wipe deleted data on Fusion Drive

Wipe free disk space mode is able to wipe the free disk space of the Fusion Drive and it will permanently erase all already deleted/lost data on the Fusion Drive, it will not affect the existing data on the Fusion Drive.

Format Flash Drive For Pc

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac offers military & government data erasure standards to help you securely and permanently erase data from Fusion Drive before you sell or donate your Mac machine. It is 100% safe, it will never cause any damage to your Fusion Drive. Just free download it for data erasure on Fusion Drive:

Permanently and securely erase data from hard drive or external storage device under Mac OS with certified data erasure methods.

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