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“I have formatted my external hard drive with exFAT file system on my Mac machine running with OS X 10.7. Later I upgraded to OS X 10.8. Whenever I plugged the ExFAT drive to my Mac system, an error pops-up saying that “iMac doesn't recognize this drive”. I tried to fix this issue through permissions in Disk Utility, but no use. Few of my vital files are present on the ExFAT drive along with music, movies and photos. I am at loss; I have no clue, what else should I do to access my drive. I am looking for help. Please guide me.”
It’s damn difficult to bear the brunt of losing your irreplaceable data all of a sudden. But you should never lose hope at any point of time. According to the great saying, you can find solution for every problem in the world! Then why not for unrecognized ExFAT drive? Have a look here.
Dec 10, 2018 First, make sure Finder will display drive icons. By default, it doesn’t display much and the setting to not show external disks may be enabled. Open a Finder window. Select Preferences and the General tab. Make sure the box next to External disks is checked. If the box is checked, move on to fix external hard drive not showing up on Mac. If the drive is formatted FAT32 it will mount on most Macintosh systems. You will want to keep the drive in the Fat32 format ONLY if you are moving it between a Mac and a PC. If you plan on only using it on a Mac you will want initialize it. If the drive is formatted NTFS, it will mount on the latest Mac OS. Feb 27, 2020 If the above methods were not able to produce good results for you, the next method to fix Seagate external hard drive not showing up Mac is via Disk Utility. Here's what you need to do. Step 1: Launch the 'Spotlight search' by hitting the 'cmd + spacebar' key.
Why Mac cannot recognize the ExFAT drive?
There might be two causes here.
1) Mac might be missing some necessary driver software to read the ExFAT drive, after you upgraded from previous OS X
2) There might be some issue with your ExFAT drive
How to go with further troubleshooting?
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1. Check Apple website for availability of any update/driver software for current version of your OS X. If you find any, install them on your machine and try to access the ExFAT drive. If you are unable to open the ExFAT drive even after installing adequate update and driver program, then jump to next method.
2. Plug-in the ExFAT drive into another working Mac Machine and see it is detected. If the drive is recognized, copy your entire data from it. Detach the drive and format it on your host Macintosh (on which your drive was not detected).
In case, your drive fails to show up on any other Mac machines then it seems like the problem lies within the ExFAT drive. It might be corrupted or became unreadable. Still don’t worry. You can bring back the corrupted ExFAT drive to normal state (working mode) by formatting/re-formatting it. Also you need to be concerned about data saved on the unrecognized ExFAT drive. As you can safeguard entire data present on your undetected ExFAT drive, with the help of Yodot Mac Data Recovery application.
Tool to recover undetected ExFAT drive on Mac system:
Yodot Mac Data Recovery can easily backup whole data from your undetected ExFAT drive, without causing any intact either to drive’s internal structure or to files stored on it. The program is well fitted to restore unrecognized Samsung hard drive, Toshiba external disk, Seagate portable drive, ScanDisk media card, HP Pen drive, Kingston USB etc i.e. it supports variety of storage devices as well as various brands; so you can undoubtedly trust the software to achieve guaranteed data restoration on any storage media. The retrieving ability of this utility is unbounded, thus you can recover any files like Office document, Portable Document Format (PDF), Outlook data files, archives, audio, video, images, RAW pictures etc of more than 300 types. Not just from corrupted storage, even inaccessible, dead, crashed, non-booting and un-mountable Mac machines data can also be retrieved by this software, with no difficulty. The smart interface of the program offers you a great data retrieval experience, effortless recovery process and preview of recovered data, so that you can review its recovering capability before you save regained data. The companionable toolkit is well-suited for all latest editions of OS X from Leopard to Sierra.
Steps to restore undetected ExFAT drive on Mac:
- Get Mac Data Recovery on your Macintosh system
- Attach undetected ExFAT drive
- Go for Volumes Recovery selection on main screen
- Select ExFAT drive and its all shown volumes from list
- Choose Normal Scan and click on Mark All key
- All files present on your ExFAT drive will be listed in two views
- Mark files that you need
- Save those files on Macintosh hard drive
Note:
- It’s suggested to keep an untouched backup of entire data prior to start OS upgrade
- Don’t forget to install necessary updates as well driver software after upgrading your OS
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