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    Formatting a boot drive back for windows use

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Hayoung, Jun 21, 2015.

  1. Hayoung

    Hayoung Notebook Consultant

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    So back when I was trying to clean install my macbook, I set it up as bootdrive with mavericks but I ended up just doing it the "internet" way where it grabs the iso and installs it over the net. Now I have no idea how to return the usb back to usable condition? I can't format it on windows and it only shows 200mb capacity, I formatted it to fat and exfat using disc utility > erase, still nothing.

    What do I dooooooo?
     
    Hayoung, Jun 21, 2015
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    Hayoung Notebook Consultant

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    Finally tackling this again, I'm following these steps: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5647115?tstart=0
    I had no step 3 so I just started to remove the partition and now it's taking a lot time "preparing" to remove the partition. Did I do something wrong?

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    Well, ended up just closing the window after it still was preparing partition for 3 hours and when I went back to the page the partition was gone, made it mbr, msdos fat and it works on the pc again.
     
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    Hayoung, Aug 17, 2015
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    I usually do it as exfat so you can use large files.

    as for doing it in windows the easiest is to go into your system management panel then under drives you can add/remove/change and edit partitions drives and types.
     
    KCETech1, Aug 19, 2015
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