MacBook Air M2, External HDD and SSD Not recognised in Finder and Disk Utility.

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Have a M2 MBA, M1 MBA and M1 Mac Mini all ruining Ventura 13.2.1

All drives formatted on a Apple Computer in a drive format that is Recognized by that formatting Mount as both Read and Write

One Laptop computer when a New Drive is connected for the First Time - the Laptop will normally present an Alert on the computer screen.

It will ask the user to Allow this device to connect to the computer

Depending on the response form the User - it should connect

If it does not - suggest the drive be Re-Formatted on the Apple Computer into a Native Apple Format ( HFS Journaled or APFS and Both using the GUID Partition Map )

sujithperikila wrote:

What is wrong with this Macbook Air M2? Can they fix it with an update?

I have a Macbook Air M2 and Ipad Air M1.

I have an HDD and SSD both formatted in exFAT. Neither of them is showing up in my Macbook air m2 on finder or Disk Utility.

But, Both of them are getting recognized on my IPAD Air M1. Read, and Writing all work well with my IPAD.

None is working on my MacBook though.

My IPAD M1 Air even recognizes NTFS formatted drives in read-only mode.

Therefore, some issue is with the Macbook Air M2.

To follow on this issue.

Am on my M2 MBA with Ventura 13.2.1

Best we present a Screen Shot of what was referred to earlier regarding Allow Accessories Permission on Apple Laptop

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