Windows only support (FAT32) formatting for drives up to 32 GB. You can find exactly on how to use the software in the video above. MacOS has it's own file formatting software which supports every USB drive size. Step 2: Choosing the Right Software for the Job macOS This ensures you can easily find the back-up. That's why it's important to back-up your music and other files on your computer.īecause you will probably move all the files that you have back-upped back to the USB drive any way I find it easy to make a folder on the desktop where you will copy and paste all the files from the USB drive. This means that all the stored music on there will be deleted. Formatting wipes all the data on your USB drive.