Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else (can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Hi again Ronni. Forgot to mention the Memory Stick is a 4 gig one. Thanks Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 10:55 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else(can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry Hi Barry, Click on the volume of the drive (under the Toshiba Media) in the left hand pane. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:55 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else(can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry Hi Barry, Click on the volume of the drive (under the Toshiba Media) in the left hand pane. Have now clicked on the volume of the drive and the format now comes up as MS - DOS File System (FAT32). I notice that there are four points to go to on the top of the window. First Aid, Erase, RAID and Restore. When I click on Raid there is a section called Volume Format, and there are a number of options. One of the options is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is that the option I should use and is that the way to reformat the memory stick?? Many thanksBarry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:16 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:55 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else(can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry Hi Barry, Click on the volume of the drive (under the Toshiba Media) in the left hand pane. Have now clicked on the volume of the drive and the format now comes up as MS - DOS File System (FAT32). I notice that there are four points to go to on the top of the window. First Aid, Erase, RAID and Restore. When I click on Raid there is a section called Volume Format, and there are a number of options. One of the options is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is that the option I should use and is that the way to reformat the memory stick?? Many thanksBarry Hi Barry, The File Format MS-DOS (FAT32) is correct, you don't need to reformat the memory stick, it is already formated. If you need to erase any files that you have put in the flash drive at any time, you click on the Volume (to highlight it) and then the Erase tab ... then click the Erase button (beside Security Options) at the bottom of the window. Always make sure you Eject the Memory stick correctly before you unplug it from your computer. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:24 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:16 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:55 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else(can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry Hi Barry, Click on the volume of the drive (under the Toshiba Media) in the left hand pane. Have now clicked on the volume of the drive and the format now comes up as MS - DOS File System (FAT32). I notice that there are four points to go to on the top of the window. First Aid, Erase, RAID and Restore. When I click on Raid there is a section called Volume Format, and there are a number of options. One of the options is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is that the option I should use and is that the way to reformat the memory stick?? Many thanksBarry Hi Barry, The File Format MS-DOS (FAT32) is correct, you don't need to reformat the memory stick, it is already formated. If you need to erase any files that you have put in the flash drive at any time, you click on the Volume (to highlight it) and then the Erase tab ... then click the Erase button (beside Security Options) at the bottom of the window. Always make sure you Eject the Memory stick correctly before you unplug it from your computer. Cheers, Ronni Thanks very much for all your help Ronni. I will leave the format as it is. I always thought that you needed to reformat in a mac format if you are using a Mac machine. Thanks again Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
Maybe I've done something wrong but I've never found the need to format a memory stick. It seems to work fine by just plugging in and away you go. Barb On 18/4/09 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston bar...@amnet.net.au wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:33 AM, Geoffrey Barbara Maidment wrote: Maybe I've done something wrong but I've never found the need to format a memory stick. It seems to work fine by just plugging in and away you go. Barb On 18/4/09 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston bar...@amnet.net.au wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Thanks Barb. Ronni has been helping me on this issue and I have left the format as it is and have just copied some files to the memory stick and everything seems to be working OK. Thanks Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:30 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:24 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:16 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:55 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 10:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. Hello Barry, What size Memory Stick is it? Is it USB 2 speed bus thumb drive? Usually thumb flash drives are already formatted asMS-DOS (FAT32) When the thumb drive is mounted, open Disk Utility in Applications Utilities and select the thumb drive in the left hand pane. At the bottom of the window what format does it claim the drive is? Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The dialog box that comes up is called Toshiba TransMemmory Media. The bottom of the window gives Disc Description, Connection Bus, Connection Type, USB Serial No., Total Capacity, Write Status, SMART Status, and Partition Scheme. There is no mention of the format. I did however see the format somewhere else(can't remember where I saw it now), which said it was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Where to next Thanks Barry Hi Barry, Click on the volume of the drive (under the Toshiba Media) in the left hand pane. Have now clicked on the volume of the drive and the format now comes up as MS - DOS File System (FAT32). I notice that there are four points to go to on the top of the window. First Aid, Erase, RAID and Restore. When I click on Raid there is a section called Volume Format, and there are a number of options. One of the options is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is that the option I should use and is that the way to reformat the memory stick?? Many thanksBarry Hi Barry, The File Format MS-DOS (FAT32) is correct, you don't need to reformat the memory stick, it is already formated. If you need to erase any files that you have put in the flash drive at any time, you click on the Volume (to highlight it) and then the Erase tab ... then click the Erase button (beside Security Options) at the bottom of the window. Always make sure you Eject the Memory stick correctly before you unplug it from your computer. Cheers, Ronni Thanks very much for all your help Ronni. I will leave the format as it is. I always thought that you needed to reformat in a mac format if you are using a Mac machine. Hi Barry, Some early Thumb Drives were formatted NTFS, a Mac was able to read these NTFS formatted thumb drives, but could not write to them. Most Thumb Drives today are formatted FAT-32, you might find some FAT-16, which a Mac can read and write to both formats. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
On 18/04/2009, at 11:33 AM, Geoffrey Barbara Maidment wrote: Maybe I've done something wrong but I've never found the need to format a memory stick. It seems to work fine by just plugging in and away you go. Barb The one time you would need to format as Mac is if you were using the Memory stick on a Macintosh running an OS prior to OSX Because OSX first became available in about 1999 there is not much use for OS9 now . Bob On 18/4/09 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston bar...@amnet.net.au wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
Hello Everyone, We transfer files between a Dell with Microsoft Windows XP and our Mac OS X 10.5.6 using a Toshiba Memory Stick without any problems. I think we were too ignorant to envisage any need for formatting or possible incompatibility! regards, Jennifer On 18/04/2009, at 12:20 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 18/04/2009, at 11:33 AM, Geoffrey Barbara Maidment wrote: Maybe I've done something wrong but I've never found the need to format a memory stick. It seems to work fine by just plugging in and away you go. Barb The one time you would need to format as Mac is if you were using the Memory stick on a Macintosh running an OS prior to OSX Because OSX first became available in about 1999 there is not much use for OS9 now . Bob On 18/4/09 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston bar...@amnet.net.au wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
