Can't format a flash drive into exFAT

Hi, so I have a flash drive and I want to formate it into exFAT/NTFS. I go and do everything, but then I got MS-DOS (FAT). Also I do not have option for NTFS. I apply 2 screenshots so that to see what is happening here.

Manuel Manev wrote:
Hi, so I have a flash drive and I want to formate it into exFAT/NTFS. I go and do everything, but then I got MS-DOS (FAT). Also I do not have option for NTFS. I apply 2 screenshots so that to see what is happening here...
I can't say if that's the internal logic in Disk Utility at work, but since the main benefit of exFAT over FAT is the ability to save files larger than 4GB, and the flash drive you're working on is only 4GB in size, there's no reason not to just leave it as FAT. Moreover, Disk Utility is known to have problems with exFAT formatting (the recommendation is to do it on a Windows PC), so you're better off as is. Finally, the Mac OS can read but not write to NTFS drives so being able to format a drive as NTFS would be counter-productive.

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