
Plug in your Seagate external hard drive into your Mac you’ll see a drive icon on How Do You Know Which File System You Have On Your Seagate Drive? HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC HOW TO Don’t Want To Reformat Your Seagate NTFS External Drive? The Seagate Expansion is an NTFS formatted drive. Want to do more than just to copy the files off the drive and use them on your You’re using your Seagate NTFS external hard drive mostly for a Windows PC.

Themselves sell some of their drives with driver software. HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC DRIVER Software you can download and run on your Mac. HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC SOFTWAREĪnd you keep the software updated to match This software allows your Mac toĬhange files on the Seagate NTFS external hard drive.Īs you have the software loaded. Your Mac’s operating system you’ll be fine. You can learn more about using a Seagate NTFS drive without reformatting in my article here. Plugging In Your Seagate External Hard Drive Into Your MacBook Pro?ĭo you have a 2017 MacBook Pro or iMac? MacBook Air 2018? Then you’ll have a Mac with USB C ports on it. HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC PRO But you’ll need to get yourself an USB micro B to USB C adaptor cable Seagate external hard drives are USB 3.0 drives. Ultra Touch for example comes with a type A to USB C adaptor in the box. The Thunderbolt LaCie Seagate external drives come with the right cable for your Mac.

My solution: Since I had another Seagate drive that I needed to reformat anyways, I did a little research and found that the exFAT format works better for Mac/PC interop. The Problem: My Seagate hard drive would not be recognized by my Mac. So I just solved this problem on my own.However, my solution actually didn't solve the inherent still-remaining problem of NTFS support in OS X El Capitan Beta.
