Formatting a USB stick

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Now I know this should be amazingly simple but I am getting annoyed with this. I am trying to format 2 16gb USB sticks so I can use them at work tomorrow on windows machines.

So I go to disk utility and have formatted both to one FAT32 partition - all good so far. However when i test them on a windows laptop they both aren't recognised properly, and I get told they need formatting. In the windows formatting options the drives are only recognised as being 0bytes and 200mb respectively.

All very odd and annoying - something about permissions I am told so I try and change permissions on the iMac and get no options at all..

Please someone help me out...

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Found the solution folks - when you format in disk utility there is an options button that opens this window:

Don't entirely understand what the options actually do to the stick - someone with more technical knowledge than me needs to explain but set to Master Boot Record the USB stick works perfectly in W7 and Mac OSX.