Format Usb Stick For Mac

Format Apple USB Restore stick The trick is actually not all that hard, but it took me a while to find a solution that would work on a Chinese website (). As you can imagine: My Chinese sucks so I thought it might be practical for other users to translate it and add some of my own experiences to it. Note: Technology moves forward, so you might run into the situation that this does not work for the stick you’re looking at. This has been successfully tested with 2 MacBook Air Apple USB Restore sticks. Your milage may vary of course Note: The 2 tests I performed where succesfully done under Windows XP running under Parallels Desktop 9. A native Windows PC, BootCamp, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox running a Windows version will work as well of course. Needed software To “unlock” this type of USB stick you’ll need an application called “ SMI Mass Production Tool” which is a Windows Application (!) – I tried to find the original developer without luck, so you can download either from the website or directly here. DOWNLOAD - SMI Mass Production Tool Platform: Windows Filename: SM3255AB_J0818.zip Version: 2.03.31 Size: 2.4 MiB Date: November 9, 2013 Download the ZIP file and unzip it.

Jan 4, 2012 - Launch Disk Utility, located in Applications > Utilities. Locate the drive name from the left hand side of Disk Utility and click on it. Click on the “Erase” tab across the top. Next to “Format:” click the contextual menu and select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. See this step-by-step tutorial on how to format your USB drive on Mac (macOS 10.13 High Sierra) and PC (Windows 10). Computer; Mobile; Reviews; Accessories; About; Contact; Guide: Formatting a USB Flash Drive for Mac & PC Compatibility. September 18, 2018 October 13, 2017. Last update: March 28, 2018. Locate your USB stick under 'This PC.

Removing the “Read Only” debacle To remove the “read only” limitation of the Apple USB Restore stick, so we can format it and use it for other purposes, follow the following steps. Step 1 – Run the program After unzipping the file you will find a program called “ sm32Xtest.exe“, double click it to start it. Step 2 – Insert Apple USB Restore stick Insert the Apple USB Restore stick in a USB port of your computer.

You will now see that one of the “ports” will become populated with information as you can see in the example below. Here we see that a [almost] 8Gb USB stick has been inserted. I guess they used Toshiba chips for this one (see under “Flash”). Format Apple USB Restore – USB Stick info Step 2 – “Fix” the USB stick Select the “port” that holds your USB stick ( 2) – if you see more than one, simply remove the Apple USB Restore stick, wait until it disappears from the list, and reinsert it. Now select the newly added “port”, which would be your Apple USB Restore stick. Now click on the big “ Start” ( 1) button (or press the Space-bar) and formatting of the stick will start.

The progress bar ( 2) will show some info while processing the USB stick. Hi Jose, it’s been quite a while since I have done this. There could be a few reasons why it failed; 1) The stick you’re using is different from the one I used in my setup, and the trick does not work for this stick, 2) An incompatibility issue with the USB controller on your PC may prevent you from doing this (try another PC and/or another USB port – I’d try a USB 2.x port, and avoid a USB 3.x port). Not sure of this helps, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed trying it on another PC will. Happy New Year!

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