I have 2 two terabytes external hard drives in exfat format. I need to copy the files onto APFS external hard drive. My MacBook Air sees the exfat drives but not mount them. The data is extremely valuable and loss would be a disaster!
Please, is there a solution? I’ve run Disk Utility in Recovery mode already and tried the Terminal to get them mounted.
What computer are the drives currently attached to? You’ll need to share them from there or use a Windows installation someplace to share them and then copy across the network.
I don’t think macOS will mount them but you might try Disk Utility and click the mount button…although I doubt that will do anything useful.
Alternatively…assuming you’ve got an Android device of some sort perhaps attach them there and share then copy across the network. Or Linux of some sort.
I’m running a MacBook Air M1, it mounted all of the other drives in exfat, just not these two.
John
I just ran Disk Utility in Recovery and the Drive was certified as error free. Then returned it to an unmounted state! Still won’t mount.
John
Is the ExFAT drive using GPT or MBR partitioning? (Disk Utility should tell you that).
I hate to say it, but I lost the content of both drives! Something must have happened when copying from Windows. 30,000 albums gone! I think that this another validation for leaving Windows.
I’m going to close this discussion and go off and pout!
Thanks to all for your advice and patience!
Normally, Macs shouldn’t have any problems mounting ExFAT formatted drives. I have run into situations where a drive fails to mount when first plugging it into a Mac, but usually it connects on the second or third try or after restarting.
Have you tried reconnecting the drives to a Windows machine? As long as you didn’t accidentally change something when you used Disk Utility, perhaps you could try mounting/repairing on the Windows side.
That’s weird…no other ideas from me. Sorry.