Format to ms-dos fat issue

[Outkast27]

I'm trying to load windows through boot camp on a late 2001 mbp. It's telling me to format the USB drive to ms-dos fat. It already is. I formated anyways 2 different thumb drives and instill get the error. What am I doing wrong ?

 

[darkpaw]

I'm trying to load windows through boot camp on a late 2001 mbp. It's telling me to format the USB drive to ms-dos fat. It already is. I formated anyways 2 different thumb drives and instill get the error. What am I doing wrong ?

What options come up in the format dropdown?

 

[bobcomer]

FAT32 is not FAT. Is there an option for just FAT, or FAT16 in the dropdown? Also, 8G is too big to be formatted FAT, it needs to be 2G or less.

 

[Outkast27]

What options come up in the format dropdown?

 

[chscag]

As stated above by @bobcomer you can't format it as FAT or FAT-32 because of the cluster size limitation. Use exFAT which overcomes that.

 

[darkpaw]

Yes, what they said ^^

 

[Outkast27]

I got this error when using exfat....

 

[Outkast27]

As stated above by @bobcomer you can't format it as FAT or FAT-32 because of the cluster size limitation. Use exFAT which overcomes that.

 

[darkpaw]

Why not try each option in the dropdown list? When none of them work, come back and let us know.