How Do I Make My Seagate Work With a Mac? One thing you should know first. Apr 21, 2020 I know Mac operating system doesn’t fully support NTFS formatted drive. But if I format the Seagate external hard drive to HFS+ file system, it will not be supported by my Windows computer. I want to know which file system I should apply for the Seagate external hard drive so that it can be compatible both with Mac and PC. : Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OS X 10.11 or higher operating system1,2 Available SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port (required for USB 3.0 transfer speeds or backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports at USB 2.0 transfer speeds 1 Reformatting for Mac may be required. 2 Compatibility may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and: 0.82' x 3.15' x 4.54'.
Oct 09, 2019 This wikiHow teaches you how to format a Seagate Hard Drive on a Mac computer. You can format a drive using the Disk Utility in Mac. Before formatting any hard drive, it's a good idea to backup any data or files you want to save before formatting. Formatting the drive will permanently erase all the data and files stored on the hard drive forever. Seagate Dashboard for Mac is included in Internet & Network Tools. The most popular versions of the software are 3.2, 3.1 and 2.3. This free software for Mac OS X was originally produced by Seagate Technology LLC. Commonly, this program's installer has the following filenames: seagatedashboardinstaller.dmg and backupplussoftware.zip etc.
I have 2 Seagate Slim external hard drives, a 1 TB and a 2 TB. After having trouble having the MacBook Pro (2013) running Sierra 10.12.3, I downloaded the driver off of the Seagate site. Now the computer can recognize and open the drive. I formatted both drives using disk utility. All well and good except Time Machine does not work on either drive. It works on my very old (2008) 360GB Seagate external drive though. Time Machine tells me it cannot find or use the drive as the need to be formatted, yet both were. So, now all I can do is copy and paste from the computer to the drive instead of Time Machine. Any ideas how to get Time Machine to work?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.2)
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