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: Rory Leonard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:03:43 +0100
Hi,
Try this from the SD Card Association .
SD Card Formatter. Gratis.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
There's two versions, one runs on Windows the other on a Mac.
I'm on Mac OS 10.10.5 - seems fine.
The SD card is always be formatted for Windows use.
The program can also do a 'low level or write zero's' erase.
It fixed a troublesome 256 GB SD Card I have - the Apple Disc Utility didn't format it with the correct block size. Made it unreadable via Bootcamp partition.
Regards Rory
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> On 19 Oct 2015, at 03:21, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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