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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1744332" data-attributes="member: 46727">Mount the USB drive in Windows (as David indicated above) and then:Using the traditional GUI of Disk Management doesn't give you the option to delete or reformat, so fire up the command line.type DISKPART to enter the diskpart utilityat the prompt, enter list disk as belowDISKPART&gt; list disktake a look at the disk you want to reformat, and select it with the appropriate number, for example:DISKPART&gt; select disk 1once selected, you can delete the GPT / EPI by the clean command:DISKPART&gt; cleanonce done, you can then proceed to format the disk the traditional way through disk management and selecting FAT32 or NTFS. Or mount the drive with your Mac and use Disk Utility to format it as HFS+.Worked for me before - if you can follow the above instructions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1744332, member: 46727"] Mount the USB drive in Windows (as David indicated above) and then: Using the traditional GUI of Disk Management doesn't give you the option to delete or reformat, so fire up the command line. type DISKPART to enter the diskpart utility at the prompt, enter list disk as below DISKPART> list disk take a look at the disk you want to reformat, and select it with the appropriate number, for example: DISKPART> select disk 1 once selected, you can delete the GPT / EPI by the clean command: DISKPART> clean once done, you can then proceed to format the disk the traditional way through disk management and selecting FAT32 or NTFS. Or mount the drive with your Mac and use Disk Utility to format it as HFS+. Worked for me before - if you can follow the above instructions. [/QUOTE]

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