I'm having trouble with my WD Elements 1TB hard drive. It works perfectly on my Windows PC, but it doesn't show up at all on my MacBook Air M2. I even tried formatting it to exFAT, thinking that might help, but it still doesn't show up. The drive is almost full, but right now it's empty as I moved the files to another PC. I really need to get all those files transferred back onto the drive so I can access them on my MacBook. I don't need it to work on Windows—just need to ensure it shows up on my Mac. I've done some troubleshooting, but I don't have a different cable to try since it's a unique one. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I've looked through a bunch of posts, but none seem to help with my issue. Thanks!
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exFAT should definitely work fine for both systems. Are you sure you formatted it correctly? If you want to double-check, there’s a good guide available that walks you through formatting the drive using a Mac rather than a Windows system. Here’s a helpful link to follow: laptopmag.com/articles/format-drive-for-windows-and-mac.
I see! It does show up as exFAT on the Windows PC, and I formatted it by clicking right on the disk (and avoided the fast formatting option). So, it's supposed to be good, right?