User's Manual

Use ‘disk utility’ on Mac to erase your USB-C flash disk in the
Mac OS Extended (journaled) or exFAT format.
Preparing Storage Media on a Windows computer
The ‘format’ dialog box can format an SD card in the exFAT format on a Windows PC.
Remember to back up anything important from your media as all data will be lost when
it is formatted.
1 Plug an SD card into your computer’s SD card slot or via an SD card reader. For external
drives, connect the drive to your computer via a USB-C cable.
2 Open the ‘start menu’ or ‘start screen’ and choose ‘computer’. Right-click on
your SD card.
3 From the contextual menu, choose ‘format’.
4 Set the file system to ‘exFAT’ and the allocation unit size to 128 kilobytes.
5 Type a volume label, select ‘quick format’ and click ‘start’.
6 Your SD card or external disk will quickly be formatted and made ready for use.
Use the ‘format’ dialog box feature in Windows
to format your storage media in the exFAT format
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