In Utilities, select and open Disk Utility.From the drop-down menu, click on Utilities. Once the drive appears on the desktop, click on Go on the top tool bar.Begin by connecting the WD drive to the Mac computer.For instructions on how to do this, please see the instructions below: One of the easiest ways to format a drive to use ExFAT is by using macOS's built-in Disk Utility. Select the Scheme (Partition Table Scheme) from the drop-down menu.For this article, we chose exFAT, see image below. Select the Format (file system) from the drop-down menu.Assign the name that will be given to the drive. The Erase dialog window will now appear.After selecting the appropriate drive, additional option buttons will become available on the top part of the Disk Utility window.In the example below, the one to be selected would be WD Elements SE. It is usually directly above the name of the drive.

Choose the drive listing that is farthest to the left (Not indented) for the drive to be formatted. Typically there are two listings for each drive unless more than one partition exists on a particular drive. From the left-side pane, choose the drive that is to be re-formatted. From the Applications folder, open Utilities, and lastly double-click on Disk Utility. Choose Applications from the left-side panel.

Double left-click on the Mac HD, the internal Mac hard drive visible on the top-right corner of the desktop screen.

Connect the WD drive to the Mac computer.

There are two easy ways to format a drive to use ExFAT is by using macOS's built-in Disk Utility using Erase (Step 4) or Partition (Step 7).

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