Disk Utility no longer offering exFat in Big Sur?

[Emmanuel Crollen]

I have two LaCie Rugged discs. One of 500GB and one of 2TB. In Big Sur I only get the option of formatting them in the APFS format. exFat is no longer available. Can you confirm this? Or do you still have the option to format in exFAT.
What to do when I need the disc to be available in Windows as well?

 

[ArPe]

Delete the volumes first and then all the options for HFS+, DOS and ExFAT will appear.

 

[Emmanuel Crollen]

Delete the volumes first and then all the options for HFS+, DOS and ExFAT will appear.

Thank you. It worked

 

[joevt]

You selected an APFS volume so it only gives APFS compatible options. An APFS volume is part of an APFS container which is a partition of the disk.

Select "Show all Devices" in the "View" menu of Disk Utility.app. Then you can select the APFS container, and erase it as ExFAT.

 

[Emmanuel Crollen]

You selected an APFS volume so it only gives APFS compatible options. An APFS volume is part of an APFS container which is a partition of the disk.

Select "Show all Devices" in the "View" menu of Disk Utility.app. Then you can select the APFS container, and erase it as ExFAT.

Thank you, both comments here are very useful. I understand it now. The "Show all Devices" makes it a lot clearer what is going on. Thank you.