I was told by a fellow apple user that if I formatted my external drive to exfat I would be able to use it interchangeably with both my windows and mac computers. I can't get my mac to read my external exfat drive. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13
Thank you for the info, I ended up figuring it out through some Google searches. I formatted the hard drive to exfat again but had to make sure the allocation size was 1024 KB or less. When I formatted it with 1024 KB, it worked with no problems.
Hey there 05saveme,
We understand that your external drive is formatted in ExFat format but is not showing up on your Mac. We'd like to help.
To begin, take a moment to review the steps here: Format a disk for Windows computers in Disk Utility on Mac
This explains how you can use Disk Utility to format the drive into ExFat format which should be compatible with Windows. Is that what you did?
If so, it's possible the drive my need to be formatted again in this format. Note that this will erase the drive.
Let us know if this helps!
05saveme,
We're glad to hear you were able to sort this out on your own, and thanks for the update. Reach back out if we can help with anything else.
Cheers!
Will do thanks.
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