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y Macbook Pro doesn't recognize my Western Digital HDD (Works on Windows, formatted to exFAT, used 3 different hubs!)

Hey dears,
both of my Macbooks don’t see WD MyPassport HDD 4TB, even though Windows Laptop sees it, so I assume the problem is about MacOS, the HDD is intact.

I tried Disk Utility, nothing is seen.
Does it have anything to do with adapter? It worked before with no issues. Used 3 hubs.

Does anyone know what I need to do to make it visible and so that I can interact with it on Mac?

Thank you!

@Seva1
If it worked before, what changes have you made to your computers, connections, updates, etc. that may have caused it not to show on your macs?

only exFAT formatting 3 months ago but everything worked well before now.

What version of MacOS are you running? There is an issue with Tahoe and SMB signing.

Plug the drive back into a Windows PC, run chkdsk /f to clear any file system errors, use Safely Remove Hardware, and on your Mac, click View > Show All Devices in Disk Utility before mounting..

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