USB shown but not readable

[McCloud94]

Recently I am getting this issue...

I've had my USB formatted as MS-DOS FAT as I want it to be compatible with both windows and mac.

I had some issues with that (even formatting it to MS DOS FAT in Mac gave me an error) so I went with exFAT.

Windows is able to read the USB without issues, but in Mac it's not readable. I can see it in Disk Utility though. So far, running 'First aid' on the disk seemed to help, but now not even that solves the problem now.

Why is this happening and how would I solve this ?


Thanks!

 

[ZapNZs]

Did you set it up using Mac's Disk Utility or Window's DISKPART?
Is this a flash drive or a hard drive?

 

[McCloud94]

Did you set it up using Mac's Disk Utility or Window's DISKPART?
Is this a flash drive or a hard drive?

Just tried with both.
Flash drive.

Even when I format it as Mac OS Extended Journaled, it's accessible but when I plug it out and then back in, it's unaccessible again.

And this happens with several flash drives.

 

[DeltaMac]

All the same brand? I have a cheap (Lexar) 64GB that is very flaky, works, then eject and re-insert, then have to do that multiple times before it will connect. It's barely used, but a challenge to get it to mount twice in a row.

 

[ZapNZs]

When using DISKPART in the CMD menu, did you use the command line order of: "diskpart" --> "list disk" --> "select disk #" --> "clean" --> "convert mbr" --> (and then use either the UI in 'Manage' or continue wth the command line to create primary partition/fs=fat32)?

Are you having USB issues with other devices, such as mice, keyboards, or hard drives? (if so, have you performed the Apple Hardware Test?)

What OS are you running?
Have you tried resetting the SMC & PRAM?

 

[McCloud94]

When using DISKPART in the CMD menu, did you use the command line order of: "diskpart" --> "list disk" --> "select disk #" --> "clean" --> "convert mbr" --> (and then use either the UI in 'Manage' or continue wth the command line to create primary partition/fs=fat32)?

Are you having USB issues with other devices, such as mice, keyboards, or hard drives? (if so, have you performed the Apple Hardware Test?)

What OS are you running?
Have you tried resetting the SMC & PRAM?

I never used diskpart to do the format. Would that be any beneficial after formatting in Disk Utility ?

It's happening with all flash drives and even an SD card as I've just found out..

When I click on repair, I get it working for a split second, that it goes grey again..

Repairing file system.
** /dev/rdisk4s1

** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT

** Phase 2 - Checking Directories

** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters

Free space in FSInfo block (1710979) not correct (1698827)

Fix? yes

197 files, 6795308 KiB free (1698827 clusters)

File system check exit code is 0.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Operation successful.


Running OS Sierra. MAcbook Pro Retina Mid 2012.
Don't have any Apple USB devices.. will try the Apple HW test.

Maybe 2-3 months ago, my Mac crashed severely.. at that time I've done the SMC and PRAM reset.. since then no.


/edit:
I've done an OS update / reboot and the issue seemed to go away.