Usb Formatting Tool For Mac

Connect USB flash drive to your computer, launch EaseUS partition tool, right-click the disk you want.

Windows formatting tool can not always format the USB flash drive correctly. Standard formatting is not solution at all if a file table information on the storage device has been corrupted. Unfortunately, it's harder to recover data on a flash drive with this kind of damage.

  • Kingston USB drives are pre-formatted with a FAT32 file system for cross platform compatibility and for optimum performance. Formatting this drive with Windows, Mac or Linux may cause a performance decrease. The solution to obtain the best possible performance is to format the drive with the Kingston utility located below.
  • USB Disk Storage Format Tool by Authorsoft Corporation is a free utility that allows you to easily format your USB flash drives. The release date of USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Mac is unknown and we cannot say for sure if it will be released at all. So you might want to use other applications to format your external storage devices.

Consider the best programs for formatting flash drives, there are more or less versatile tools. You can easily find other alternatives, free and proprietary utilities offered by manufacturers and download it for Windows. So, let’s begin!

Important! Save the USB flash drive contents on the computer before formatting. All data stored on the formatted media will be irretrievably deleted.

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JetFlash Recovery Tool - simple usb stick formatter

JetFlash Recovery Tool is a universal solution to format usb drive. It will be useful in case if:

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  • USB flash drive consists any file table errors or bad sectors
  • Information on the flash drive can not be read (reasons unknown)
  • You just need to format a USB flash drive

Install the JetFlash Recovery Tool and try to forcefully format flash drive with it. The flash drives formatter works with A-DATA and Transcend brands, but other variants are possible as well.

JetFlash Recovery Tool can be downloaded from the official website. Install it on the computer according to the instructions that come with the program.

USB Disk Storage Format Tool

USB Disk Storage Format Tool allows you to format a USB flash drive on Windows quickly and correctly. You can specify the file system of the formatted usb media: FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS.

The main features of the utility:

  • It allows to choose standard formatting or erase all data on a flash drive, which can not be formatted by usual (system) way
  • USB Disk Storage Format Tool removes any traces of malware and viruses that could infect the USB flash drive
  • Search and fixing of reading errors and bad blocks on a flash drive
  • Creating a volume label (name) for USB drives
  • Creating a partition in FAT32 with a 32 GB > capacity
  • Low-level formatting of flash drives of the required model (Kingston, HP, Sony, Lexar, Imation, Transcend, Corsair and so on).

USB Disk Storage Format Tool has been successfully tested on thousands of storage devices (Compact Flash media, Thumb Drives, Pen Drives). It supports such brands as SanDisk, Kingston, Transcend, Corsair, Sony, Lexar, Toshiba, Verbatim, Silicon Power, IronKey and HDE.

There is also a Pro version of the USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It can be useful for making bootable flash drives, performing low-level formatting, changing the size of the clusters and so on.

HDD Low Level Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool is utility for low-level hard disks formatting. This app allows you to read SMART data and get service information about data storage devices on your Windows PC.

However, the HDD Low Level Format Tool supports not only hard disks. It is also possible to format usb pen drive or memory card (SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash) – you need a card reader to connect them via an USB port.

HDD Low Level Format Tool will erase data from SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI or SSD via low level access. The utility also works with any USB and FIREWIRE external drives, as well as SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash sticks.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows

A very simple utility for the correct flash stick formatting in FAT32 or NTFS formats. The main function is to help the user to quickly select options and format the USB flash drive on the computer by pressing a “Format” button.

HP USB Storage Format Tool is available for free, the installer can be downloaded for Windows 10, 7, 8, etc.

In addition, through the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, you can make a bootable USB flash drive (which other similar usb flash formatters can’t do).

How to format a USB flash drive in Mac OS

The HP USB Format Tool allows you to format the USB flash drive in the Mac OS X. However, for this you need to follow the next steps:

  1. Install the Parallels Desktop emulator on your Mac OS
  2. Install Windows on Parallels Desktop
  3. Download HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool on Mac, install it on emulated Windows
  4. Format the USB flash drive under Mac OS X via emulated Windows

Kingston USB Format Tool

Kingston format utility does not contain any settings at all. For formatting, you need to specify a device (usb-flash drive) and a file system.

Developers of the program claim that the FAT is the best format for usb drive to avoid conflicts with other operating systems. It will not affect the performance of the flash drive.

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The program is able to format and repair usb flash drives under Windows 7, Windows 10 and earlier versions of the OS.

Therefore, if you have a Kingston flash drive and noticed that it works slowly, try this app: maybe it will solve the problem.

These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.

Download macOS

Find the appropriate download link in the upgrade instructions for each macOS version:

macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, ormacOS High Sierra
Installers for each of these macOS versions download directly to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS Catalina, Install macOS Mojave, or Install macOS High Sierra. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. Important: To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server.

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OS X El Capitan
El Capitan downloads as a disk image. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.

Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal

  1. Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer. Make sure that it has at least 12GB of available storage and is formatted as Mac OS Extended.
  2. Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  3. Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is still in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace MyVolume in these commands with the name of your volume.
    Catalina:*
    Mojave:*

    High Sierra:*
    El Capitan:
  4. Press Return after typing the command.
  5. When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
  6. When prompted, type Y to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the bootable installer is created.
  7. When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Catalina. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.

* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the --applicationpath argument, similar to the way this argument is used in the command for El Capitan.

Use the bootable installer

After creating the bootable installer, follow these steps to use it:

  1. Plug the bootable installer into a compatible Mac.
  2. Use Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences to select the bootable installer as the startup disk, then start up from it. Your Mac will start up to macOS Recovery.
    Learn about selecting a startup disk, including what to do if your Mac doesn't start up from it.
  3. Choose your language, if prompted.
  4. A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the Internet, but it does require the Internet to get information specific to your Mac model, such as firmware updates. If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi network, use the Wi-Fi menu in the menu bar.
  5. Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.

Learn more

For more information about the createinstallmedia command and the arguments that you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter this path in Terminal:

Catalina:

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Mojave:

High Sierra:

Usb Formatting Tool For Mac Windows 10

El Capitan: