
But you should never lose hope at any point of time. It’s damn difficult to bear the brunt of losing your irreplaceable data all of a sudden. I am at loss I have no clue, what else should I do to access my drive. Few of my vital files are present on the ExFAT drive along with music, movies and photos. I tried to fix this issue through permissions in Disk Utility, but no use. Whenever I plugged the ExFAT drive to my Mac system, an error pops-up saying that “iMac doesn't recognize this drive”. If anyone else has similar or different experiences with the BMC and their SSD dock, please post a response.“I have formatted my external hard drive with exFAT file system on my Mac machine running with OS X 10.7. Lastly, formatting an large capacity SSD as exFAT is going to take a long time, so sit back and have your favorite snack/drink. In this case always format these SSDs on a Win 7 PC first, because Macs will always read those disks. The second item is that it is common for Windows 7 to not read exFAT SSDs that have been initially formatted on a Mac. It may also be remedied by seeing if there is a driver/firmware/software update for your specific brand of dock.

This limitation is not universal to all brands of docks, but mine (a newertechnolgy VoyagerQ, which is a common dock) does it, so there are probably others. Where "z:" is the drive letter that you have assigned the SSD partition in the Windows disk utility.

You can, however open a command window (formerly called a "DOS box") and type: First, if you are connecting an SSD to your Windows 7 PC via an external dock (USB 3, Firewire 800 or eSATA), be forewarned that the drivers for these docks may preclude formatting your SSDs as anything but NTFS from the Windows 7 GUI. I assume that the BMC will also be able to access both format types. The BMD Hyperdeck software Version 3.5 was released today, allowing the Shuttle and Studio units to read read not only HFS SSDs, but also exFAT formatted SSDs. Note, that this post is only indirectly related to the BMC, since most of you do not have a camera in hand.
