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How to fix disk utility stuck in load state on Mac

Hello


I was wondering if anyone has had this issue before.


I using a 4TB (maybe 6TB) hard drive, formatted with exFAT. Everything was well until I upgraded to Sonoma14.4 .


Whenever I plug my hard drive in I can't see it. The disk utility it just tells me its loading (forever) and when I run diskutil list it hangs and the whole computer starts to feel slow - eg. Safari takes ages loading pages.


When I unplug the hard drive diskutil list immediately lists all the drives, the disk utility app loads and shows all the hard drives and the computer starts to feel faster (well normal) again.


Does anyone know the cause and how to resolve this ?


Cheers,

Lucas


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Posted on Mar 16, 2024 10:17 AM

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