Can you use this drive to reformat a disk?
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Yep; does everything a floppy drive is supposed to do. The only potential downside I have experienced is that it will only run when plugged into USB 2.0 or better.
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Deborah ---I don't know the answer to that question. I have never tried to reformat a disk with the external USB A Drive. But, originally when an A drive was an internal part of an older computer disks could be reformatted using the internal A drive. All I can say is give it a try. Bev
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It will reformat a disk but remember you will loose any info that is on the disk, it will erase everything.
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Yes you can. Just create the partition using the disc utility. (Applications/Utilities/Disc Utility) Hope this helps!
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Easy to reformat.... But you will need to reformat it on your Mac. Use the Disk Utilities.(FAT32 I think???) Your PC wont recognize the drive until it is reformatted. Macs can see PC formatted drives, but PC's can not see Mac formats. The cable that comes with the drive will work on USB 2.0 or 3.0, no need to buy a new cable.
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Is there any software on the internal memory that will be erased if I format the drive?
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No reason why it wouldn't. You can format it for the file system of your choice from within your OS.
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Yes. Drive comes formatted and can be recofnized by pc or mac. You could also reformat using Disk Utility if you choose
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For it tk recognize the whole drive you'll need to reformat the drive in FAT32.
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Mine did not need any reformat. I put 2 drives on it snd they worked without any reformating.
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This hooks up to your computer, and then yes you can format the disks. I've done it so I know you can. Hope this helps and answers your question
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Yes, if you reformat the USB drive, you will lose all data on that drive. Copy the data from the USB drive to the hard disk, or to another USB drive. After the data is safely copied to another drive, you can reformat the Kingston. After reformatting the Kingston, you can copy your saved data back to the reformatted USB drive.
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Yes, you can reformat this card as NTFS. It will come shipped with exFAT formatting.
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Yes, that is what we have ours connected to. You may have to reformat the drive by using disk utilities.
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Absolutely. I have a bunch of them that I use as live-USB drives. Just remember that once you install bootable Linux on a USB stick, you will have to erase the first block of the MBR in order to reformat it for some other use. There are plenty of "how to" articles at AskUbuntu.com.
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If your using it as a secondary drive Windows will reformat it for you. I reformatted mine several times.
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No reformatting necessary as the hard drive ships in FAT32 format, which is instantly compatible with a Mac. If there is /any/ chance that you will be hooking into a Mac and a PC at some point, I'd highly recommend leaving the formatting as is (of course you can wipe the drive and then reformat it in MSDOS format through Disk Utility). You cannot easily write to a Windows (i.e., NTFS) drive but you can read it on a Mac. Have no idea as to whether a Windows machine can read/write something that is Mac formatted, however.
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Yes, - it has to be reformatted. It's easy - my non-tech sister just did it.
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I don't know. I am unsure if the adapter I had works properly. Your system sees something, but if you reformat, you will lose the info on the drive.