Hey everyone. I have a super annoying problem with my Lacie d2


Firstly i have alot of music on my windows. I decided to choose NTFS. I transfered the files which took me 4 hours of waiting. After that i plugged it into my mac and i could read but not transfer anything. That is OK, it is NTFS. So i searched on google and found out that i should use exFAT. So what i do is to format the drive on windows 10 to a exFAT drive. I then try to transfer something over to the external, same on the mac and it worked! However here comes the annoying part.

After 4 more hours of waiting for the music to transfer on my windows, i plug the external drive into my mac, and now the disk does not show up!! I tried to go into disk utility and it is still just greyed out. I also cannot activate the drive!!!


I have been ejecting the drive properly at all times, so what the f am i doing wrong here? Does someone know how to fix this issue without saying that i need to format my external one more time ?

Im just going to use this freaking drive so i can transfer over some music from both operating systems, MAC and windows. How can this be so fkn hard to do ???????!

All i can say is that it worked using exfat on windows and mac before i started to transfer over all those big music files

Hi, exFAT should work...but if I had done it I've formated the drive to exFAT in my Mac...not in Win10, I've seen problem with it before.
And for NTFS in Mac there is a good program: https://www.paragon-software.com/sv/home/ntfs-mac/

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Hey and many thanks for you answer! I will use if it continues to be like this. I however changed the allocation size to default. It seems to not be greyed out anymore, atleast i hope. Still not done with transfering over the music

If you leave it plugged in long enough it will most likely appear. Do it overnight and in the morning you might see it has mounted.

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