Windows 7 exfat cannot write

Here are the screenshots of my drive status. Sep 15, 12, 42 You may need to, and this is a bad thing to tell you Reformat it.. Go to the partition tab, and towards the bottom is Options. Or, get rid of XP because it is old and crummy. I thought there was some sort of limit in XP and 3TB, not sure what, but those two things are sticking out in my head. I don't know. KeithP Diamond Member. Jun 15, 5, Is the exFat driver installed?

Stu, I tried it but that option is greyed out. Tyranicus Senior member. Aug 28, 6 The problem is that it is formatted with the GUID partition scheme.

XP requires MBR. You will need to reformat it as TheStu details. Oct 9, 5, 2 I can write to the drive now from WinXP.

I also tested by hooking up to MBP and it reads and writes. I'm good now thanks. I think I mentioned in my previous post that you need to format the drive in Windows. I had the same problem when I formatted a partition with exFAT in OSX, but Windows wouldn't even mount the partition, much less give me a read only error. I also had to format it. Just external.

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Are you sure they were there. Did you actually access the drive then and open any of the files you copied to it. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. You might want to share the manufacture and model number of the drive so information about it can be researched. How to include a screenshot in your post. Interface type: High speed USB 3. Perhaps the USB drive malfunctioned because I did not remove it properly?

And also my laptop reboots in the night? Not sure the reason. Your only hope is to use a 3rd party application that can try and retrieve lost or deleted data on a drive. There are a few free ones. Look around. Now it is ready to use and is properly prepared. Yes you lost what you had or thought you did on it. Another thing, you do not have to safely remove a thumb drive or external HDD if it is just used for storage. I plug them in everyday and copy files and unplug them.

Plug them back in, use them, unplug them. Only using them for ready boost do you have to do the Safely Remove Hardware, because you have memory stored on it that your PC is currently using and your PC could crash. One last possibility, The USB 3. This happens. And they are cheap too. You most probably bought a hacked flash drive from a questionable source. There are many "fake" as to capacity flash drives being sold on the web, especially on eBay, but also on Amazon. The "hacking" consists of making the drive appear to Windows to have far more capacity than it actually does.

Your alleged 2TB drive might only have a few GB of capacity. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is. I regretted not taking out the drive properly, but I am not going to beat up myself anymore on this. I have been doing that for the past few hours Well, since things already happened, I would have to find ways to restore my old deleted files from recycled bin.

Step 2. Besides, you can edit the Partition Label, Cluster Size here. Click OK. Step 3. That is how to format external hard drive to exFAT. Still Need Help? Have your problem been solved?