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exFAT mounting problem

Hi, I'm trying to mount an exFAT harddrive via usb. The disk is recognized and show in the disk utility, but i cannot activate it. The only error I get is in the Console :

28.02.11 20:38:36 kernel exfat: bytes per cluster (4194304) > MAXBSIZE (1048576). Can't mount.

Any chance of getting access to the drive? It mounts perfectly under Windows 7.

Thanks!
Regards,
aixxo

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 28, 2011 11:50 AM

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Nov 7, 2017 1:15 PM in response to aixxo

Good to know but I wish I had known sooner. I've been formatting to exFAT for a while assuming that everything would be Mac/Windows compatible. In fact that's the only reason I have been formatting exFAT and now I find out it has to be formatted exFAT to a specific cluster size! I'm using Parallels to run Windows 7 to access my exFAT drive in Mac OS as a workaround because moving all my files off my 6TB drive so I can re-format to 1024 cluster size and move them all back again isn't feasible at the moment.


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exFAT mounting problem

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