If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

This will help you to recognize the drive and delete any existing partitions. This clears the way for repartitioning and formatting.

Here are best free USB Flash Drive Format Tools for Windows 11/10 to format a USB drive in multiple file systems e.g., NTFS, FAT, EXT2, exFAT.

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use.

If you need to format a USB flash drive, here's how it's done on all three major operating systems.

I have a similar guide for booting WinPE from a flash drive. The only thing that differs is that it recommends once you run diskpart to then run <B>list disk</B> to make sure of the # of the flash ...