The operating system still provides a built-in way to quickly restructure a USB drive to FAT32, if required, and the steps are identical for both Windows 10 and 11. A fresh format ... on any Mac ...

You can wipe a hard drive and data drives through your Windows 10 Settings, the DBAN utility, and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode.

Despite the popularity of AirDrop, cloud services and email, the most convenient way to share files is sometimes with a thumb drive. See how to format a drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs.