Zulu, хехе, только фрматить надо под виндой, ибо
maximko:Товарищи, фигня какая-то получается, под снежком отформатировал флешку 16гб в FAT, а винда ее открыть не может, предлагает только форматнуть, причем емкость видит только 200 мб... Раз пробовал - на маке появляется 2 раздела на флехе, один из них 200 мб. Раньше форматил - все было хорошо
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Сегодня перебил флеху на два раздела: 1 - 5 Gb macos (жунальный), 2 - 10 Gb ms-dos(fat). Таже фигня - семерка плешку не видит, предлагает форматнуть, той же емкостью 200 мб

lbvsx:Yep. What happened is that when you re-formatted the flash drive using your Mac, it left a 200 MB protective partition on the drive ahead of the main partition. That's the way Disk Utility works.
Windows - (all versions) will not recognize any more than one partition on removable media. Windows does not "see" the large partition of your flash drive, it can only "see" the first 200 MB and that's what it re-formats.
There is a work around where you can make Windows "think" your flash drive is a hard drive rather than removable media. Do some Googling to find it. That will enable you to re-format the entire flash drive to 4 GB.
For future reference: Do not use Disk Utility to reformat a flash drive. There are other utilities such as GParted (free) which work well. Or just reformat it with Windows.
there is an alternative
This can be done on Mac OS X - you need to set the partition scheme to MBR, if it isn't already, for Windows to recognize it. This is done from Disk Utility. After selecting the disk, go to the Partition tab (if there is no Partition tab, you've selected the wrong thing). You want to click Options... but it's grayed out. To fix this, click the pulldown that says Current. Change it to 1 Partition. Then, you can click Options and set the partition scheme. Then, once that's done, select MS-DOS (FAT) as the partition format. Let DU do its thing.
maximko:lbvsx, спасибо за беспокойство. Флешку вернул к жизни утилиткой от НР. По второму пункту не разобрался

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