Apparently Mac laptops just can’t do it. No judgement I can’t either.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Weird, I’ve had some issues like that over the years but I don’t think it ever happened without there being a hardware issue which soon cropped up on other oses too

    • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Yes, but sometimes when you have weird mixtures of MBR and GPT remains the only thing that’ll fix is is a good DD of a bunch of zeroes over the entire raw device. I’m not sure MacOS lets you do that.

    • Fleur_@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      The USB and was set up as a bootable drive. Wanted to wipe it. Everytime I hit reformat or erase it would give it a go then give up. Plug it into my PC, right click, reformat, 2 seconds later got a empty USB.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        I might expect that drive to misbehave in the future – may be best to keep it backed up often. Issues like that for me have usually indicated a hardware failure coming

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    Mac laptops can absolutely read & reformat nearly any usb drive. If you want it ntfs formatted, you’ll have to download an app like Tuxera, but it’s definitely still doable.

    • Fleur_@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      42·
      6 months ago

      Couldn’t reformat or erase a USB set up as a bootable drive. Gave it ago but gave up and said it couldn’t do it. If it takes longer to setup a Mac so that it can do something than it takes to bootup another device, its effectivly incapable of doing it imo.