I've used at least 10 other hard drives (conventional HDs not SSDs) formatted in ExFAT and they've always worked across Windows and Mac with full read-write functionality. I formatted it again in ExFAT on Mac, then when connected to Windows it comes up as read only - the drive can be read but no data can be added or changed, it can only be written to on Mac. However, with OS X update 10.6.5, Apple fully supports accessing exFAT drives. However, previously Apple OS X users have had difficulty accessing exFAT drives. As previously discussed in our exFAT versus FAT32 versus NTFS article, exFAT is a good modern update to Microsoft's file system.
I can confirm that after I re-formated my external 2 TB HDD from exFAT with 2048K allocation unit size to exFAT with 1024K allocation unit size, the disk is now discoverable by Mac OS and I can work with it just fine.
It is only bootable partitions that need to follow the above sequence to avoid trouble.By Juno | Posted to NTFS for Mac Tips, updated on November 18th, 2020 For non boot partitions, it is fine to format them as encrypted - e.g.The encryption process is disk intensive so it is best to just let if finish before doing other disk intensive things. You can see the progress of the disk encryption by going to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> FileVault. After you enable encryption, wait for the encryption process to finish before installing other software or making big changes.Perhaps that bug has been fixed now, but I don't know so I would not risk it. I have had issues with disks formatted with multiple partitions when using encryption on one or more of the partitions. I would also recommend to format it the disk as a single partition.If you do it in this sequence then everything works. This can be done near the end of installing Sierra (it prompts you if you want encryption), or after the install is done. Finally, turn on disk encryption (called FileVault).Install macOS Sierra on the fresh, unencrypted disk.Format the target disk "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" - but not encrypted.I'm usually installing my Linux systems on fully encrypted disks, thus I am wondering whether this is also possible with macOS Sierra.
Is this desired behaviour? How to install macOS on a encrypted, journaled file-system? I was not able to install macOS onto a fully encrypted disk. Now my only option is reboot and remove the encryption via disk utility. MacOS could not be installed on your computer. I entered the password and the process continued until at some point it aborted with the following message: This told me it will check eligibility of my device and due to my encrypted disk it will ask for the password during installation. I quit the disk utility and selected 'Install macOS'.I erased the macOS partition and formatted it with journaled and encrypted file-system.I restarted the system, pressed CMD+R to get into recovery mode and went into disk utility.I just wiped my 500GB disk on my Mac Mini (2011 model) to freshly reinstall macOS Sierra.