I've read and watched tutorials on how to format my LaCie 4TB external hard drive. I'm running my 2014 Macbook Pro Retina Display with OS X Yosemite. When I go into Disk utility to format my drive I do not have an MS-DOS (FAT) option. I'm trying to use this drive for both my Xbox 360 and Macbook. Where do I find the download?
trouble formatting fat 32
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You can not format a 4 TB drive to FAT-32 as that exceeds the FAT-32 limit. You can only format it to exFAT or HFS+ from Disk Utility. There is no download.
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I thought that was the case but hadn't pinned it down yet. Some of the stuff I read wasn't exactly clear.
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