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D_Evans

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 24, 2017
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Question is in the title really, if you format a drive on a different OS and give it an allocation unit of over 1024 OS X straight up refuses to read it. It seems a bit of an odd limitation.

Anyone found a way to get around it?

It is of course possible to mount the drive in Windows, back it up, format with a smaller block size and then transfer back. But if I just take a client or friends drive who uses Windows and want to mount it I'm SoL.

Minitool isn't an option yet as it cant change the block size on ExFat - although they promise its coming to the pro version.
 
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