#Seagate external hard drives mac for mac#
#Seagate external hard drives mac install#
#Seagate external hard drives mac update#
#Seagate external hard drives mac portable#

Both FAT32 and exFAT are suitable for Seagate drive to be used with Mac and PC. As mentioned in the previous part, NTFS and HFS+ are not suitable, you should format Seagate drive to another file system.

#Seagate external hard drives mac for mac#

But here IвЂ™d like to discuss what kind of file system you should format Seagate to for Mac and PC.

#Seagate external hard drives mac install#

In fact, you are able to use NTFS formatted Seagate drive with Mac or HFS+ with Windows if you install certain third-party software. Is there any advice? Thanks for your help!вЂќДЇormat Seagate hard drive to FAT32 or exFAT?

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. But if I format the Seagate external hard drive to HFS+ file system, it will not be supported by my Windows computer. I know Mac operating system doesnвЂ™t fully support NTFS formatted drive.

#Seagate external hard drives mac portable#

вЂњI have purchased a 1TB portable external Seagate hard drive and I would like to use it with both my Mac and Windows computer. Want to use Seagate hard drive with both Mac and PC

в–¶ Format Seagate hard drive to FAT32 or exFAT? I've read that it's a difference from the typical journaled hfs+ system we've been used to for so many years to a new 'core storage' system that isn't nearly as compatible.в–¶ Want to use Seagate hard drive with both Mac and PC At this point my drive appears hosed until I can find something that can read this new partition style.

#Seagate external hard drives mac update#

This all happened to me as the result of the most recent Yosemite update that I installed yesterday. I can change the encryption passphrase just fine in disk utility. I've booted the machine to a Mavericks flash drive to run disk utility there and that was no help. That didn't have any impact on my system. Other threads here have suggested a kext utility 2.6.1 (this is a utility that is used for getting a Hackintosh to work). Repair Disk times out after a long time and says it can't fix it, despite all the history that looks like its going well. Disk Utility can see the external drive and its single partition, but it can't mount the partition. After about 60 seconds (which I assume is a timeout of the software) the password box goes away. After I enter it, the system stays in a frozen state with the password box grayed out.

Upon connecting the drive, Finder asks for my password as normal. From what I've read it looks like Yosemite changes the partition table on the external drive. I use this drive as my external library for iTunes, iPhoto as well as Time Machine. I'm having the same problem with my encrypted, external USB Seagate drive. If this doesn't solve it or you are formatted to OSX journaled, I don't have any more detailed experience in sorting. That's pretty much all I can contribute to this problem. Also check finder preferences, and make sure external disks options are checked under the 'general' and 'sidebar' tabs (if that's what you want). Fresh OSX yosemite installs (in my case) reset my finder preferences to not display my external drives in finder window sidebars. If that works proceed to steps 5 and 6.ДҐ. If you can't detect/access the detected partitions and your drive was formated to NTFS you can uninstall (go to prefereces) and reinstall the paragon drivers: lus-desk/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/Д¤. If you can detect the partition you can load it directly by clicking on the path (mount point).ДЈ. Is it detected? My drive was, but the partition not recognised.Дў. Run Disk Utility with the USB drive attached.

Here's some tips that might help people still trying to fix this:ДЎ.