There are two other options here – GUID Partition Table and Apple Partition Table. There are good descriptions here of which to use for what specific Mac product you wish to optimize this drive for. For most new formats, you will want to choose the top selection – GUID Partition Table. Once you select this, click the OK button, and you are now ready to actually partition and format your drive. After you hit Apply on the Partition Scheme window, you are returned to the prior window showing your devices. You might now want to change the name of the partition that you are about to create.

Time Machine is the software on a Mac that is used to backup your Mac to an external hard drive. Format the Seagate Expansion to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. Take a look at the steps above. Seagate External Hard Drive Not Recognized. I have a seagate external hard drive that is recognized by my computer but i can Can't access my Seagate Backup Plus External Hard Drive. From the popular Slim drives to the ridiculous capacity and mobility of the Portable drives, you can always rely on the Backup Plus family. All Backup Plus drives are compatible with Time Machine ® and come with cool features, including Seagate Dashboard and Windows/Mac compatibility.

I bought the same drive several months ago and don't recall whether I had any trouble adding files, but then again it's my habit to reformat a drive for mac the first time I use it. I'd suggest you go to Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. As long as you haven't any files yet on the drive you can choose 'erase' and reformat the drive. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is your best choice if you only intend to use the drive with Macs.

I have no idea what Time Machine, SP1, HFS+, and partitions are. Time to google and hopefully it isn't confusing. Why would you want to partition it instead of just doing it the easy way by just formatting it to exFat? Even though multiple people are suggesting eXFat, I still wouldn't be able to do full system back up with it unless I use this HFS+ thing?

• FAT32 offers no security, unlike NTFS, which allows you to set permissions. If your HD gets into the wrong hands, that person will be able to access your data. • The max size for any given file stored on a FAT32-formatted HD is 4GB. So, for example, if you want to store a 9GB movie, it will be impossible.

A USB 2 drive will do just fine, as will. Once you’ve gotten your preferred external hard drive set up, create a folder on it to keep your iTunes backup in.

I'm using Windows 10.' Three steps to fix Seagate external hard drive not showing up in Windows 10 Sometimes, when you plugin your Seagate external hard drive to PC, it cannot be recognized by your PC.

The exFAT filesystem will work on both Windows and OS X. Its not an alternate per se. The author literally start the sentence with the word 'Alternatively'. The author's first suggestion is just formatting the entire drive as exFAT, then he suggest an alternative solution which is to have two partitions where as you say it is pretty much necessary to start with the OS X partition. But the instructions for doing that is part of the authors explanation for his alternate solution, OP seemed to be confused as he thought the instructions were connect to the first suggestion of just formatting the drive as exFAT, which they are not, and that confusion is what I tried to clarify in my comment, nothing more. If you simply want to have a data drive that can be shared across Mac and PC just format the drive in ExFAT. External drives come partitioned, you simply want to reformat it with an ExFAT partition.

And yes there are still a few about out there. Choose ExFAT leave everything else the same as my instructions above, and then click on Erase.

• Look for the Seagate External drive in (My) Computer/This PC. It will be a drive letter, like E: or F: (unless you have changed it). Double-click on the external drive.

What does that mean? This means that you will only need the USB cable as the USB cable is used for both power and transferring files. No need to worry about carrying around a power cable and or plug adaptor. Seagate Expansion Easy Connection to Mac Imagine finding yourself in another country and with an external drive that needs a separate power plug. Not only will you need another plug socket in addition to the one you need for your Mac but you may need a local power adaptor too.

By “basic,” I mean the popular and consumer-grade desktop drives shown above from Seagate, a major (but not top) drive manufacturer with a good (but not great) warranty. The are similar up until the 4TB mark, where the price doubles. Generally, 3TB to 5TB would be the sweet spots between capacity and pricing, but of the 3TB Expansion mirror comments I’ve seen elsewhere online: Seagate’s 3TB units had lots of problems.

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This fools your Mac into saving any future iTunes backups to the external drive (which I’ve named ExternalHD above, but will be something different in your case). Use this command in Terminal to create your symbolic link. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Quit Terminal and check on the success of your symbolic link by returning to the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/ folder in the Finder. You should see that the new “Backup” folder is actually just a blank file icon with an arrow on it. If you follow the steps, you should see a generic Backup file icon like this. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Now launch iTunes, connect your iPhone or iPad via a Lightning cable, and back up as per usual.

How do i format a seagate external hard drive for mac? To reformat the drive in mac os.

If that’s the case, you’ll need to first reformat the hard drive to FAT format. Step 2: Connect Your iOS Device To Your Mac The first thing you need to do is connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using the USB to Lightning connector you got with your device.

This is the new place that your iOS backups will be stored. • ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup: The command that tells the operating system where the backup is. • 4f1234a05e6e7ccbaddfd123b123f: The name of the device backup folder. If you are transferring all of your backups, this will just be named 'Backup.' If you are transferring one device, use the name of the backup folder for your device. The one above isn't even a real file name. You must change the above backup folder name to whatever is the name of the folder you are transferring.

Image and Video Credit: Acguevara How to Format Seagate Hard Drive for Mac and PC For those users and households that have both Macs and Windows PCs and are looking to use the Seagate Expansion drive between Mac and Windows PC, note that the drive needs to be formatted to ExFAT. Follow my format instructions above except in step 5 choose the ExFAT file system. To format for Mac and PC: Give the Seagate Expansion a name, use the up and down arrows to the right of the format option to reveal the other disk formatting options and choose ExFAT. File System Formats Do not choose MS-DOS (FAT) as that file system, it is old, has file size restrictions and you would only use it If you had to. Say for those devices that must use MS-DOS (FAT) operating system.

I bought it 1 year ago it worked fine till yesterday. Suddenly It started blinking and is not recognized by the computer and hard disk drivers are not installing properly when i plugged in the drive. I have tried every alternative method using Device Manager/Disk Management/Seagate tools but none of the solved the issue.I too Switched the cables – no change. Drive still blinking. I have a lot of important files in that drive.

My preferred USB cables to use for Macs with Thunderbolt ports are; 1. Do You Need a Thunderbolt Drive? Unless you need the speed of Thunderbolt, (theoretical 10 GBits/sec minus USB overheads) the Seagate Expansion portable will be a lot cheaper to buy than Thunderbolt native external hard drives. The performance level of the Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 external drive is fine for many home and office users who are looking to use the drive to store files and perform backups on their Macs.

Then it will automatically format your Seagate external hard drive and wipe all existing/history data. You will get a brand new Seagate external hard drive. Since this Mac data erasure will permanent wipe all data on your Seagate external hard drive while it is formatting your Seagate external hard drive under Mac OS. So please back up your important files before you run it to format your Seagate external hard drive. It also supports to format Mac hard drives, USB flash drives, external hard drives, digital cameras, SD cards, etc under Mac OS.

Open Disk Utility, select the external hard drive and go to Partition. Under Volume Scheme, choose 1 Partition, then click Options. Choose Master Boot Record. Then choose MSDOS under the Format menu. Then click Apply.

You can do that by clicking the small white circle and dragging it around. After that, you can rename each partition and define a file system for it. Step 3: Confirm your operation.

Next, we will show you how to fix the issue without losing data. Make Seagate external hard drive show up in disk management The first thing you need to do is to check if it is showing up in disk management.

I tripped on the cable connecting my 3tb Seagate Backup Plus HDD, and disconnected it from my pc. It was popping in and out, disconnecting on its own then. A few days ago I got the message about data corrupted and didn't think much of it, until I plugged the drive back in and it asked me to format it. It listed the drive as local, and when I rt clicked on it, it would say Windows can't access. So I tried a different cable, pc, and other usb ports, still can't access it. When I virus checked it, I could see the names of files. I ran chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r, and I could see the folders in there, but still couldn't access it.

Step 3: Launch Image Capture Image Capture on Mac is one of the most underrated utilities. To launch it, search for “Image Capture” using Spotlight search (using Cmd + Space shortcut). After you launch it, find your iOS device in the left sidebar and click on it. You’ll now see a list of all the photos on your iPhone or iPad right there. You can either use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + A to select all or just individually check mark all the images you want to import. Step 4: Select Destination By default, photos will be imported in the Pictures folder.

Anyway, the main takeaway I want you to have from this article is this: Backup your Mac with Time Machine and create a second or third copy of those backups if you can.

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