Monterey is too fast for some old flash drives

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Monterey is too fast for some old flash drives

FYI: macOS 12.5.1 Monterey does not anymore format an oldish but slowish Transcend 16GB flash drive to APFS because it timeouts after formatting is as Mac OS Extended while waiting for Spotlight when unmounting for the subsequent APFS format. Booting the same Mac mini 2018 to Mojave, this succeeds as usual as does formatting as plain Mac OS Extended.

Making a bootable macOS 12.5.1 Monterey USB flash drive via the Terminal works although it takes over 30 minutes (booting to it succeeds quite fast).

Posted on Sep 9, 2022 11:20 PM

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Answer 1

Owl-53

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Sep 10, 2022 4:59 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Can not speak to the specific Brand in question.

Using a SanDisk 128 GB Capacity USB Pen-Drive that was Formatted in Monterey as HFS Journaled with Master Boot Record Scheme Partition Map .

Dismounted the Drive First in ** and then reformatted to HFS Journaled / GUID Partition Map

Again, Dismounted the drive First in ** and reformatted as APFS / GUID.

In both cases ( Reformatted ) it has worked fine.

EDITED for correction in spelling 😔

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Sep 10, 2022 4:29 PM in response to Matti Haveri

Thanks for that, I think my SSD may be too old. I have had about 4 years! I will invest in a new one. Too frustrating to reboot in Mojave and have to reload Monterey and I worry that I will screw it up. With the COVID time bubble, I didn't realize it was that old.

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