If you find any, install them on your machine and try to access the ExFAT drive. Check Apple website for availability of any update/driver software for current version of your OS X. Why Mac cannot recognize the ExFAT drive?ġ) Mac might be missing some necessary driver software to read the ExFAT drive, after you upgraded from previous OS XĢ) There might be some issue with your ExFAT driveġ. According to the great saying, you can find solution for every problem in the world! Then why not for unrecognized ExFAT drive? Have a look here.

But you should never lose hope at any point of time. It’s damn difficult to bear the brunt of losing your irreplaceable data all of a sudden. I am at loss I have no clue, what else should I do to access my drive. Few of my vital files are present on the ExFAT drive along with music, movies and photos. I tried to fix this issue through permissions in Disk Utility, but no use. Whenever I plugged the ExFAT drive to my Mac system, an error pops-up saying that “iMac doesn't recognize this drive”. Thank you everyone in advance! I hope there is a way to get this SD card back to normal.“I have formatted my external hard drive with exFAT file system on my Mac machine running with OS X 10.7. (The reason I mention this is to say, it seems like Flash Driver should be still 'alive', it's not dead like this article said (to be fair and respectfully, this article taught me something I didn't know before today) ), but I was able to create two folders, even renamed one of the folders after created it.Ĭan anyone explain to me how can I make it recognizable in my other OSs as well?Ībout Mac, I vaguely remember it uses a different Technoloy for its storage, I can kind of feel since the technology kin to SF flash drive tech behind it, that could be why they can communicate with each other. On Mac, weird and interestingly, it seems like I can write as well (since this is work computer, didn't want to copy anything from Mac. Like, creating a folder, or storing another file it.

I happen to have access to Linux system, Windows OS and MacOS systems Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows 10 can recognize it can see what's inside it but cannot make any chances. Recently during re-partitioning my hard disk, I mistook SD flash drive as some sort of 'extra' 'wasted' space and deleted it.Įver since my computer(s) stopped recognizing it.

Macbook sd card read only