10.5.7 fixes USB drive formatting bug

Despite all of the issues people are having with the 10.5.7 upgrade, one good thing has happened with this latest release...Apple has finally fixed a bug that would not allow you to format an external USB drive using Mac OS X Extended Journaled. See:
Apple Discussions Search: format USB input output error
http://bit.ly/zRAM0
You could previously format a drive via FireWire. I successfully formatted an external USB drive this past weekend with 10.5.7 installed. Then, I rolled back to 10.5.6.

Hi Carolyn,
I can't seem to post a new topic to that forum. Despite being logged in to Apple Discussions, every time I click on the "Post new topic" link, I get redirected to an Apple Discussion User Login page with a Cancel and Login button. It's a never-ending loop. I tried clearing my cache and cookies in three different browsers and still cannot post to tat forum. Odd.

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Thanks, it is working now, after I have installed NTFS3G.
I did not format the drive. I was using it as purchased to do backups for a while. After the corporate backup system was working correctly again I was using the disk at home for my homevideos. Since the corporate backup was running correctly for ten days in a row, I have decided to delete those backupfiles on the usb drive. Each backup was a folder consisting of almost 30GB data, mirroring the servers harddrive which is running on windows xp. After I have deleted those folders, only the video files remaind and I could not open the drive on the macmini anymore.

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Is anyone at Toshiba watching this forum?!

Is anyone at Toshiba watching this forum?!
You misunderstand this forum. This is a peer support forum. We are all just users and other Toshiba owners. While Toshiba USA supplies this space, no Toshiba tech/customer support, or any other personnel view, comment on, or offer advice on this forum.
I thought updating the firmware might help, but neither of my computers can format a USB drive with FAT or FAT16. Their only options are FAT32 or exFAT. What am I supposed to do next?!!!
I do not know what's up with your HP desktop, running Win7 (64-bit). But, on my Win 7 64bit system, if put in a USB flash drive in my system, then click on 'Computer', right click on my USB flash drive, click on 'Format', click on the drop down menu arrow under 'File system', my choices are NTFS, FAT (default), FAT32, exFAT. See the attached image.
But, I have not actually tried to format my drive with FAT. You may have to create a smaller partition because of the size limitations of FAT (really FAT16).
Maximum Partition Size Using FAT16 File System
So, assuming your Win 7-64 offers the same choices, if necessary create a smaller partition, then just pick the 'FAT' and format your USB flash drive with that.
Good luck.
Mike
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Created document on Mac Air Pages, saved it to USB drive formatted to ExPat but on Windows 8.1 desktop, this file came up as a JPEG image. Any ideas please?

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Duplicating your post on the same Category won't help you much and it makes it difficult by
keeping track.
The problem you are having is related to the fact that your USB Drive format is FAT or FAT 32.
This type of format doesn't allow for a single file to be greater than 2GB and 4GB respectively,
and the single backup file you are trying to copy is greater than that so it doesn't allow it.
What you can do is format your USB Drive to be NTFS, which has no limit on what size a file can be
except the size of capacity the USB can store, but I'm not sure that's a good idea because of
the disadvantages of the format.
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Originally Posted by ketter
Ian,
I messed around with USB on NW6.5 at one point and it was a bit
problematic...although I don't recall the exact issues now. But maybe
I'll give it a try again. Thanks.
Ken
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