New MacBook Air won't recognize drives

My new MacBook Air will not recognize any of my external drives or thumb drives. I have the M2 with Sonoma 14.1.2. It will not even accept the drive that I migrated my old mac with.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.6

Posted on Mar 5, 2024 07:45 AM

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2 replies

Mar 5, 2024 07:49 AM in response to chackett14

Do the drives appear in Disk Utility?

Mar 5, 2024 09:29 AM in response to chackett14

I had a problem where an external drive was ExFat format. Copied all of the data off then reformatted with Apple format and problem solved.

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