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Size of usb drive for windows install mac

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The ExFAT disk format support 16EB (BILLION TB) data size and it is supported by multiple OS ( Windows, Linux, macOS ), so with this disk format, you can transfer the files between different operating system. Click the Erase button to reformat the USB disk. Then click Erase icon at the top menu bar, and select Mac OS Extended ( Journaled ) disk format or ExFAT disk format in the dropdown list.Before erasing the USB disk, you need to back up the existing data to a safe place in your computer, this is very important, because the erasing will remove all the data in the USB disk.Select the USB disk in the macOS Disk Utility tool, please note, you should select the disk carefully, do not select the main disk.But if you want to use the USB disk to transfer a big file from macOS to Windows, you need to reformat it with ExFAT format, otherwise, Windows will not recognize the disk format and need to format it when you plug the USB disk into PC. To fix this error, you need to reformat the USB disk with a macOS disk format such as Mac OS Extend(Journaled). How To Fix It Is Too Large For The Volume’s Format Error. Click the USB disk in the left panel, then you can see the disk volume format is MS-DOS(FAT32) in the right panel.Ģ.

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