Apparently Mac laptops just can’t do it. No judgement I can’t either.
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Yes they can…
Yes, but sometimes when you have weird mixtures of MBR and GPT remains the only thing that’ll fix is is a good DD of a bunch of zeroes over the entire raw device. I’m not sure MacOS lets you do that.
I have had some finicky USBs that mac couldn’t see.
Weird, I’ve had some issues like that over the years but I don’t think it ever happened without there being a hardware issue which soon cropped up on other oses too
The USB and was set up as a bootable drive. Wanted to wipe it. Everytime I hit reformat or erase it would give it a go then give up. Plug it into my PC, right click, reformat, 2 seconds later got a empty USB.
I might expect that drive to misbehave in the future – may be best to keep it backed up often. Issues like that for me have usually indicated a hardware failure coming
Mac laptops can absolutely read & reformat nearly any usb drive. If you want it ntfs formatted, you’ll have to download an app like Tuxera, but it’s definitely still doable.
Couldn’t reformat or erase a USB set up as a bootable drive. Gave it ago but gave up and said it couldn’t do it. If it takes longer to setup a Mac so that it can do something than it takes to bootup another device, its effectivly incapable of doing it imo.
