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Ask Question. Extended File Allocation Table, a proprietary file system originally designed for flash drives by Microsoft Learn more… Top users Synonyms. Lukas P. No matter what I do it will only stay read-only on Mac. Albano Latifi 1 1. Making a disk image of an exFat SD card slower than copying I'm curious why when using hdiutil I am getting such slow speeds when creating a. It takes about 10 times longer to create a disk image of the SD card then to I have a 4TB external drive formatted as ExFAT file system with single partition, and I've already stored approximately about GB of files on it, and I decided to create a partition on this drive to AgentBilly 6 1.

Using hard disk after a S. I had an hard drive and start giving a S.

T error and I've immediately replaced it. Now if I try to format it in exFAT, all goes right, also checkdisk. Here is the result Davide 4. Everything worked well until suddenly a problem appeared somewhere. The copying process got stuck Exfat readonly hard drive to writable without formatting I got an issue with the hard drive.

The drive was unmounted while I plugged off my laptop without ejecting. None of the solutions were working so then I tried mounting in read-only mode by doing this Kijan Maharjan 5. Byron Mansfield 18 5.

Sibtain 1. Parth Rudakia 58 9. The stick mounts without any problems on a Windows 10 system. Arne Burmeister 6 Danielle 1 1. Mastermmm Reputable. Oct 12, 0 4, 7. I have a feeling it has something to do with the HDD size. Any suggestions? Jul 31, 6, 0 35, 2, Hey there, Mastermmm. You shouldn't have any trouble with that kind of size as it's supported by the OS. However I've seen similar issues with exFAT.

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Check out this thread for a possible solution and an answer to what might be wrong: Basically you could try the suggestions from the link, or try to format the drive with the exFAT file system by using Windows computer don't forget that the drive should be initialized with GPT instead of MBR if you want to be able to use more than 2. You could also try the basics: In the Partition area, click under Partition Layout and select 1 Partition.

Then, click on Options. To the right, insert a name for the drive, and click on Format. From the drop-down, select ExFAT.

When done, click on Apply. A window will come up showing that formatting and partitioning the drive will erase all data that is on the drive. If there's no needed information within the drive, then click on Partition. If there is data on the drive that is needed or is not backed up, it will need to be copied to another location before proceeding.

The drive is now formatting and a status bar will be seen at the bottom that says formatting the disk and gives the name of the drive, the format it is applying, and the name that was specified.

When it is done, this bar will go away and the drive should now be listed on the desktop. Right-click on Start , the Windows logo on the bottom-left of the screen, and click Disk Management. In the Disk Management window, the lower pane will display a list of available drives. Identify the drive that needs to be partitioned and formatted, and make sure that all critical data on this drive has been backed up elsewhere.

If there is already a partition on the drive, the bar above that drive will appear blue. If there is no critical data on the drive, or the data has been successfully backed up, right-click the bar and click Delete Volume. If Disk Management shows the drive as Not Initialized , the drive will have to be initialized. For assistance initializing a hard drive, please see Answer ID If there is no partition and data on the drive, it will appear as Unallocated , with a black bar on top.

Right-click the Unallocated space or the black bar, and click New Simple Volume. Click Next to proceed. Choose the volume size and click Next. By default, the maximum disk space is already selected and it is recommended to leave it at the maximum disk space. Open Disk Management. In Windows 8 this can be achieved by moving the mouse to the bottom-left corner of the Desktop and right-clicking on top of the Start menu screen.

Then, click Disk Management right below Storage.

From the menu, click on Disk Management. FAT32 in macOS Once that's done, double left-click on the Mac HD , the internal Mac hard drive visible on the top-right corner of the desktop screen. While in there, open Utilities , and lastly double-click on Disk Utility When Disk Utility opens, all available drives will display on the left-side panel.

From said list, select the drive that is to be partitioned and formatted from the left-side panel. Once selected, click on Partition on the top area of the Disk Utility window. The Partition window will now appear. Next to Partition, assign the desired drive name for the device.

This is the format that the drive will be formatted to. Now, click on Apply. Disk Utility will begin the formatting and repartitioning process. This may take several minutes.