[lug] Need ... flash drive cross platform functional [solved]

Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net
Sun Sep 18 13:57:09 MDT 2005


On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:56:44AM -0700, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> Try this.  Plug it into your Mac.  Start Disk Utility, and activate  
> the "Erase" pane.  Where it asks for "partition format" choose "MS- 
> DOS File System".  After formatting it that way, you should be able  
> to use it everywhere.

This works! I had tried the "Partition" pane and it did not offer the
MSDOS option. I didn't know when I tried it that msdos flash drives
don't have a partition table.

Thanks

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net



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