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4TB Passport for Mac "Disk too large for partition scheme, failed"

The easiest way to do this, is using command line(terminal).

  1. First find the disk: diskutil list
    e.g
    /dev/disk3 (external, physical):
    #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
    0: GUID_partition_scheme *X TB disk4
    1: Microsoft Basic Data easystore X TB disk4s1
  2. Now earse
    diskutil eraseDisk FILE_SYSTEM DISK_NAME DISK_IDENTIFIER

Replace FILE_SYSTEM, DISK_NAME,DISK_IDENTIFIER.
e.g diskutil eraseDisk ExFAT ABC /dev/disk4;

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