I have an external 2TB Seagate drive formatted for ExFat. Discussion threads suggest converting to ASPFS using Disk Utility and Edit. However when I select the drive, go to DU, select edit, Convert to APFS, that is greyed out. How to proceed please?
Mac Studio, macOS 13.0
Polycarpus wrote:
I have an external 2TB Seagate drive formatted for ExFat. Discussion threads suggest converting to ASPFS using Disk Utility and Edit. However when I select the drive, go to DU, select edit, Convert to APFS, that is greyed out. How to proceed please?
DU>View> Show all devices you are erasing/initializing/ formatting the parent drive
GUID partion Map
APFS file system
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Polycarpus wrote:
I have an external 2TB Seagate drive formatted for ExFat. Discussion threads suggest converting to ASPFS using Disk Utility and Edit. However when I select the drive, go to DU, select edit, Convert to APFS, that is greyed out. How to proceed please?
DU>View> Show all devices you are erasing/initializing/ formatting the parent drive
GUID partion Map
APFS file system
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Many thanks. Worked perfectly.
Converting an Exfat drive to APFS with Ventura
