WARNING: Formatting the drive will erase all data on the drive, so you should copy any data you want off the drive prior to formatting. Check step 2 to confirm Disk Utility is Showing All Devices. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) How do I change my drive format (Windows) Find the drive in your file browser. After clicking 'erase', you can then select the drive format. NOTE: If you don’t see Scheme, then make sure that all devices are showing and the non-indented entry is selected. How do I change my drive format (MAC) Open 'disk utility', select the drive on the left hand side that you wish to formatted. Select the non-indented entry, you will see Media in the nameĬlick the button labelled Erase in the menu which will bring up this window.Click View in the upper left and select Show All Devices.To open Disk Utility - Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility IMPORTANT: Reformatting the drive will erase all data on the drive, so you should copy any data you want off the drive prior to formatting. When using between macOS and Windows, drives should always be formatted on macOS because not all Windows allocation unit sizes (block sizes) are supported by macOS which will prevent the drive from mounting.ExFAT drives must be safely ejected to prevent corruption because ExFAT is not a journaled file system.Starting with Big Sur, APFS is now the default for Time Machine.ExFAT is not compatible with Time Machine.
It is important to keep the following in mind when formatting to ExFAT: Not sure what version you are using? Click here to determine your version of macOS IMPORTANT: This article applies to the following macOS version:
