I will leave Windows instructions below for the benefit of Windows users. Mac instructions above will now work for exFAT. It appears the issue has since been fixed and disks formatted exFAT on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) are working with Windows.
Update: At the time of the original posting in 2011, there were some problems getting a Mac formatted exFAT drive working with Windows, it had trouble recognizing those drives. To format the drive to work with both platforms you will need use a Windows computer to format the disk as exFAT. You must have Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer, and PCs need to be Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, or newer.Īlthough it is possible to format a drive as exFAT from Disk Utility on the Mac, that drive will not work with Windows PCs, and that’s not what we’re after. The erase option deletes all the data that was in the drive.Ĭons: Not compatible with older operating systems. On the utility’s window top, select the option labeled Erase.
Highlight the one that you want to format. On the left, the connected drives can be seen. On the drop-down box, select the format labeled exFAT.On the Disk Utility, make sure to double click.Select the Go menu by navigating to the desktop and to the bar at the screen’s top where the Go menu is located.Moreover, to access disk utility, you can first: Select MS-DOS (FAT) from the drop down box.
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