In disk utility, check the partitioning type of your drive. Click on the hardware description line for the drive in the column on the left. In the info on the bottom you want GUID as the partition type (for your Intel based Mac). If this is not correct, you can repartition the drive in Disk Utility. Then try to format it Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). If that doesn’t work you may have a faulty drive.
i uninstalled ntfs-3g after discovering its uslessness (is that a word?) for CCC.
I reinstalled to rule out this format problem as i was sure that i successfully formatted the drive as ntfs. I guess you are right as i can only format as ExFat with 2 partitions.
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“hardware description line” do you mean “information” for that drive? If yes, then that is what i supplied above. I made sure to choose GUID. If no, please explain further as i see no mention of “hardware description”.
I cannot erase the drive leaving one 3tb partition. I only get success with 2 partitions, and only in ExFat format. Is it possible to have a “faulty drive” which can be formatted in ExFat but nothing else? I would have bet that a faulty drive would not be able to be formatted at all.
thanks Wizer. I understand that it SHOULD be able to be formatted to any file system. What I’d like to know is, why can I format as ExFat but nothing else?
I cannot erase this 3TB on my mac; not chosing any file system. This is because its larger than 2TB yes?
I can format into 2 partitions but again, only in ExFat.
Also, I can not erase this 3TB drive on my PC because XP cannot work with a HDD above 2TB, correct?
Has anyone come across a Hard Drive which can only be formatted as ExFat? And if so, is it fixable?