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Cant format this External Drive - FIXED - Microman - 10-31-2022
Disk Util says that its fine with first aid. When I choose to erase, it unmount, and then gives me this error:
It's a 2.5" drive that is mounted in a data to usb plugin thingy from another drive.
Mounts fine, and can read files from it.. Just cant erase.
Re: Cant format this External Drive - Tiangou - 10-31-2022
Does the same error occur when you use "Show all devices" and erase it from the device-level instead of the volume-level?
Re: Cant format this External Drive - Microman - 10-31-2022
Tiangou, that worked, thanks... very much!!
Re: Cant format this External Drive - FIXED - rz - 10-31-2022
I tried reformatting a PC-formatted drive just today under Sierra. Actually tried two different drives, got same error. Fired up my MacBook Pro which runs El Capitan and it worked no problem. Thanks Apple.