Ladies, Gents,
I bought a mba awhile back. Had a WD passport hd that I use primarily for all my media work with no issues. But I dropped it now it doesn't work. I bought a new drive, a Toshiba Canvio, formatted it to exfat on a win7 machine before I ever plugged it into my mac. Loaded stuff on it, then took it home. The light came on, it was spinning, but it didn't mount. I read that canvio's have issues on newer macs, so I returned it. Got a seagate slim drive, same thing all around. I figured at this point it was the computer. I checked in disk utility and sure enough it was there. I was unable to pull it up though, so I reformatted it via my mac to exfat again, and it popped right up. I have the newest version of OS on it. Any ideas why formatting exfat on the widows machine doesn't let it mount to my mac book air?
I bought a mba awhile back. Had a WD passport hd that I use primarily for all my media work with no issues. But I dropped it now it doesn't work. I bought a new drive, a Toshiba Canvio, formatted it to exfat on a win7 machine before I ever plugged it into my mac. Loaded stuff on it, then took it home. The light came on, it was spinning, but it didn't mount. I read that canvio's have issues on newer macs, so I returned it. Got a seagate slim drive, same thing all around. I figured at this point it was the computer. I checked in disk utility and sure enough it was there. I was unable to pull it up though, so I reformatted it via my mac to exfat again, and it popped right up. I have the newest version of OS on it. Any ideas why formatting exfat on the widows machine doesn't let it mount to my mac book air?