Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
- Subject: Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
- From: Mark Stegman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:21:14 +1100
Ben,
Update... I thought I would try what you said I had done (and didn't do)
and used the MBR option for the partition map scheme. It worked! Sort of.
The PC did not recognise the flash drive and required me to reformat it,
which I did, only this time it recognised its full capacity (8gb) so I was
able to reformat the drive as FAT32 and have workable device. This was
leading me to the conclusion that the menus for the partition map scheme in
the Mac Disk Utility are now simply wrong.
I plugged the flash drive back into the Mac. It seemed to be working fine.
I copied files OK. Then I tried reformatting it again using the Disk
Utility. Now the partition map scheme options for MS-DOS (FAT), ExFAT or
any other scheme have disappeared! If I return to the other flash drive
formatted using GUID the options appear again.
I feel like I am wasting my time... and yours, but this is a pain when
other people still require files to be delivered or backed up on Windows
compatible flash drives. It seems my crusty old PC is still good for
something. At least I have one way of creating a usable, windows compatible
flash drive... use a PC.
Thanks.
Mark
On 19 October 2015 at 10:09, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Sorry but that its NOT what I did. I used the default GUID Partition Map.
>
> Mark
>
> On 19 October 2015 at 10:00, Ben Goren <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 18, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > In ALL cases the PC told me that the drive was unreadable and that I
>> needed
>> > to format it, which I did. However, it would only allocate 200mb of
>> space.
>>
>> You partitioned the disk with an MBR partition map rather than GPT. You'd
>> only ever want MBR for ancient legacy stuff.
>>
>> b&
>>
>
>
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