How can I format a USB drive as FAT from a MacBook Pro?

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Published on 2010-11-11T22:14:21Z Indexed on 2011/11/17 9:57 UTC
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I plugged in a 250GB USB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and want to format it in FAT so I can transfer files back and forth between a windows machine.

(My windows7 machine only formats in exFAT which my Snow Leopard 2.6.4 doesn't support until I do the update).

So I want to format it on the mac.

but when I right click on the drive, it gives me the options to eject, copy, but not to format.

I can go into Disk Utilities, click on Partition, but the only option is the "Mac Journaled format".

How can I Format my USB drive as FAT from my MacBook Pro?

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