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I can no longer access an external HDD formated with (parted) on Linux

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XPcentric

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Oct 16, 2008
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I have a SATA hard drive that I connect to my Macbook using a USB-SATA cable.
Everything used to work fine, before I cloned my OSX to the external HDD, and used Diskutility to restore recovery partition.

Then I formatted the external HDD using (parted) on Linux, doing these instructions:
> parted /dev/sdb
> mklabel gpt
> mkpart ... (interactive)
>mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1

However when I connect it to OSX, it no longer shows up in Finder or Disk Utility,
I tried to format it using both GPT and MSDOS with parted.
I can connect the same HDD externally to linux and it does work.
 
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