Reformat Usb For Both Win And Mac

I have an 8GB USB drive which was originally formatted with FAT32. I wanted to move a ~4GB file from one of my Macs to another Mac. Given the 2GB limit of FAT32 I formatted the USB driver with the Macs native file system (HFS+). Everything went well and I was able to copy the ~4GB file to the USB drive. Flash (no pun intended) forward to today when I wanted to use that same USB drive on my Windows 7 system. Given the drive was partitioned/formatted with a Mac partitioning scheme and filesystem the Windows 7 system didn't recognize it. No problem.I fired up Disk Management and attempted to delete the two partitions created by the Mac.

I was able to delete the 'data' partition without problem. However I was unable to delete the EFI (about 200MB) partition. No problem.it's only 200MB. Unfortunately I was unable to format the unallocated space. In order to reclaim this space I had to plug the USB drive back into my Mac and use it to create a FAT32 partition on the USB drive. Does anyone know how I could use Windows 7 itself to repartition the USB drive and not have to rely on an alternative system to wipe out the Mac partition information?

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Photo by Sharon Vaknin/CNET If you need to expand your storage space with an external hard drive and you use both Mac and PC, you'll likely run into a few obstacles. Windows' default NTFS is read-only on OS X, not read-and-write, and Windows computers can't even read Mac-formatted HFS+ drives. FAT32 works for both OSes, but has a 4GB size limit per file, so it.