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Windows FAT32 file system is unredableunreadable

I know there is no difference between MS-DOS FAT32 and Windows FAT32 file system and there are only FAT16 and FAT32 but Disk Utility identifies FAT differently and in my case USB drive with Windows FAT32 is unredableunreadable. The latter was created in Ubuntu when I wanted to make GParted live USB using:

sudo dd if=/path-to-gparted-live.x.y.z-w.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M; sync

before that USB drive was formatted in disk utility to MS-DOS FAT32.

MS-DOS FAT32

and here is the picture of it after creating live USB in Ubuntu:

Windows FAT32

Why Mac OSmacOS doesn't read Windows FAT32?

Windows FAT32 file system is unredable

I know there is no difference between MS-DOS FAT32 and Windows FAT32 file system and there are only FAT16 and FAT32 but Disk Utility identifies FAT differently and in my case USB drive with Windows FAT32 is unredable. The latter was created in Ubuntu when I wanted to make GParted live USB using:

sudo dd if=/path-to-gparted-live.x.y.z-w.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M; sync

before that USB drive was formatted in disk utility to MS-DOS FAT32.

MS-DOS FAT32

and here is the picture of it after creating live USB in Ubuntu:

Windows FAT32

Why Mac OS doesn't read Windows FAT32?

Windows FAT32 file system is unreadable

I know there is no difference between MS-DOS FAT32 and Windows FAT32 file system and there are only FAT16 and FAT32 but Disk Utility identifies FAT differently and in my case USB drive with Windows FAT32 is unreadable. The latter was created in Ubuntu when I wanted to make GParted live USB using:

sudo dd if=/path-to-gparted-live.x.y.z-w.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M; sync

before that USB drive was formatted in disk utility to MS-DOS FAT32.

MS-DOS FAT32

and here is the picture of it after creating live USB in Ubuntu:

Windows FAT32

Why macOS doesn't read Windows FAT32?

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Peter
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Windows FAT32 file system is unredable

I know there is no difference between MS-DOS FAT32 and Windows FAT32 file system and there are only FAT16 and FAT32 but Disk Utility identifies FAT differently and in my case USB drive with Windows FAT32 is unredable. The latter was created in Ubuntu when I wanted to make GParted live USB using:

sudo dd if=/path-to-gparted-live.x.y.z-w.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M; sync

before that USB drive was formatted in disk utility to MS-DOS FAT32.

MS-DOS FAT32

and here is the picture of it after creating live USB in Ubuntu:

Windows FAT32

Why Mac OS doesn't read Windows FAT32?