You plug in a fresh USB drive, Windows asks how you'd like to format it, and then you're staring at a dropdown menu offering three cryptic acronyms: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. No explanation. No guidance ...
The best FS for that would be exFAT, as it's compatible with both Lion and Win7. Less than half of the total space is used up, so I thought I'd be able to resize the partition with Disk Utility, ...
When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...