Cannot format new USB flash stick OSX - No Options

[bennib0i]

Hi all,

First time member and poster here. Hope everyone is well 🙂

I'm having trouble working out how to format a new USb stick drive. I normally use the simple Disk Utility in Mac but this time there is no option.

Please see the below screenshots: I don't seem to have an option in either tabs for "First Aid", "Erase", or "Partition".

Any thoughts please?

 

[Bruno09]

Hi,

see if this can help : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2176?viewlocale=en_US

(you can use the Disk Utility of the Recovery partition if you are running Lion, ML or Mavericks).

 

[thedeske]

if it's read only, get info on the drive in the finder and change the permission to read/write in the get info dialog window

 

[Bruno09]

@ thedeske :
If it is an NTFS drive, you can't change the permission :

 

[thedeske]

@ thedeske :
If it is an NTFS drive, you can't change the permission :

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Ah, OK