Hi there, I have a USB flash drive which was formatted for a mac. I put it in my Win 7 Pro machine to format it for Win7. It recognizes the drive, installs the drivers, yet never shows up as an active. The instructions below are for Windows 10, but other versions of Windows from Windows 7 and up can also format an external drive as exFAT for use with Mac as well. Connect the drive to your. ![]() ![]() I used my 64 GB PNY flash drive to make a bootable Mac OS (El Capitan/Sierra as shown in installer on MacBook Pros. Today, I decided to reuse this flash drive in Windows. When I connected it to my old, updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 box, I was unable to reformat it. I tried Computer's Disk Management, but still wouldn't let me format. I could delete volumes, but not new volumes. Mac os emulator for windows. I had to use my Linux/Debian stable/Jessie box's gparted. What was the correct way to reformat it in 64-bit W7? Thank you in advance.:). Volume works like a partition of the storage. If you deleted all the volumes, you need to create a new one for the PC to be able to detect it. Given that fact, can you clarify if you were able to create a new volume after deleting all the old ones? If not, you can create a new volume on your storage and try the steps we provided above. Feel free to give us updates on your concern. Yeah, I was unable to make a new one. I had to use my Linux/Debian's gparted to do them. It seems like Windows 7's Disk Management can't.:(. When you are unable to create a new partition, it usually is because of the format of the storage that you are using. Let’s check on this further, can you provide us further information by answering these questions: • When you try to create a new partition, are you getting any error codes, or an error message? • Have you tried using another storage and still unable to create partition? No errors or anything. Just nothing since the options were gr(a/e)yed out. I had to use Linux/Debian's gparted software to redo the drive. I haven't tried another USB flash drive with a bootable Mac OS installer on it yet.
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