Jul 29, 2017 · The issue seems to be multifold. A thumb drive formated with exfat is being seen as FAT and not exfat by the Mac. Running first aid on the failed partition in Disk Utility fails with fsck_msdos being run... Running fsck_exfat on the partition /dev/disk2s1 returns fine. Running it on the disk /dev/disk2 fails looking for the boot regions/signatures.

May 12, 2010 · [*]To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives: For Mac OS X 10.4 or later (32 or 64-bit), install Paragon ($19.95) (Best Choice for Lion and Mountain Lion) For Mac OS X 10.5 and later, including Lion, FUSE for OS X; For 32-bit Mac OS X, install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X (free) (does not work in 64-bit mode)

Nov 10, 2022 · I can open an external hard drive with a windows computer but not with my MacBook Pro. About my MBP: OS: Monterey 12.5.1 (21G83) Hardware: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Processor: 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel

Aug 4, 2014 · Hi. Long time Mac user. I make videos & upgraded to Ventura 13.0.1. I format external drives in exFAT so I can use them with Windows when necessary. The new system says "allow to connect" with drives plugged in, and I say yes. Should be fine. But now on my Intel Mac & my M1 Mac, plugging in a drive does nothing.

Jan 6, 2022 · Scenario 1 (Mac on exFat): I have formatted the external drive with the Mac as exFat. I try to copy the data from the NAS to the external hard drive. After approx. 6 hours of running time, another 9 days are assumed. Only a relatively small amount of data was copied, so the remaining 9 days would probably have been needed.

Apr 18, 2012 · hi all, here's my current setup: 2x 1TB HDD's that are both NTFS and store general files like music/videos plus one 1TB drive that Time Machine uses to backup my Mac. i don't know where to place this thread, but i thought i'd get a much better response here because the Mac folk would have more...

May 31, 2019 · But as I said, if one wants to use the device either with a Windows PC also, or have a Windows OS on part of it, then one can first partition the drive, then format the Mac partition as HFS+, and the other partition as ExFat. By the way, for the Mac partition formatted as HFS+, if one installs Catalina or Big Sur on that partition, it will be ...

Windows/Mac. Windows 7 will read and write FAT, exFAT and NFTS without any problem. (It can even ReadyBoost from an exFat flash drive). Starting from Mac OS X 10.6.5, the OS supports reading from and writing to exFAT formatted drives. Conslusion. I would go for the exFAT. It's fast, supports huge datafiles and both your Windows 7 and your Mac ...

Nov 10, 2020 · The diskutil command is a more reliable than the Disk Utility application when creating two ExFAT partitions on a drive. I do not believe you can specify the Allocation Block Size when ExFAT formatting a partition with either the diskutil command or Disk Utility application. However, you can with the newfs_exfat command.

Nov 17, 2022 · When I copy data from my MacBook Pro (M1) to my external drive (HDD USB 3.0 - exFAT) it is slow (60 MByte/sec). When I copy the same data from a Windows PC on that drive, I reached a much better performance (120MByte/sec). Is there a way to improve the exFAT performance on Mac? I disabled Spotlight search on external drives, but this does nothing.