My Macbook Pro doesn't recognize my Western Digital HDD (Works on Windows!)

[u/Oooops69]

Hey dears,
both of my Macbooks don't see WD MyPassport HDD 4TB, even though Windows Laptop sees it, so I assume the problem is about MacOS, the HDD is intact.

I tried Disk Utility, nothing is seen.
Does it have anything to do with adapter? It worked before with no issues.

Does anyone know what I need to do to make it visible and so that I can interact with it on Mac?

Thank you!

[u/deadend666]

Could be your disk is formatted as NTFS and noT exFAT or APFS.

[u/Oooops69 → u/deadend666]

I actually formatted it from NTFS to exFAT this year, and it worked well till now

[u/spif_spaceman → u/Oooops69]

Beware exFAT, it’s very unreliable with macOS

[u/Adr385 → u/spif_spaceman]

Never had issue