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How to use HFS formatted pen drive in Windows 7?

How to use HFS formatted pen drive in Windows 7?

I recently used disk utility in my mac book pro to format my 8 GB pen drive to install OS X. After that I formatted my pen drive from disk utility as FAT32 so that I would be able to use it in windows. But in windows the pen drive does not show up. When I right click on my computer and click manage and then disk management, the pen drive is listed there, but it doesn't show up in the explorer and I cant use it. I tried to do many things but I'm still not being able to use it in windows though I can use it in Mac OS X. Could anyone help? Thanks.

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Guest [Entry]

"Windows is very fussy about partitioning, and what it expects. I have always found it better on the Mac, to just partition it as a single Fat16 partition. Fat32 vs Fat16 for a 8 Gb drive is not going to be that much of a significant difference.

Then, if you want to reformat it as a Fat32 partition when it's visible on the Windows side, go ahead."
Guest [Entry]

Use HFS Explorer to show your HFS partition in Windows.