Seagate FreeAgent Pro 1TB External USB 2.0/eSATA Hard Drive "format drive mac windows" Questions

...same as if I had just bought the unnecessarily overpriced Mac formatted HD? Thanks! Yes, you can format a windows OS drive on your MAC to one of the MAC filing system, which would work just as

...DRIVE...IT SHOWS UP BUT I CANNOT OPEN IT PLEASE HELP if you still can see files on the Hard disk from MAC, then the reason of being unabe to explore your file from MS windows is that your hard was ...

...drive format between Mac and PC are very different. Mac uses FAT32 and PC is NTSF. Mac can only read NTSF. If you want the Mac to read and write the drive you will need to reformat the drive to MAC ...

...protected... help me... the ntfs format is windows operating system format... MAC will not recognize this format... You need to format your hard disk according to the MAC OsX from your MAC

...format a drive of any size to a FAT file system. If you have already formatted it you can now be able to use it vice versa. One more thing if the HD is formatted as NTFS, Mac OS can read it but can't ...

...drive for my Mac? I have just bought a new Seagate FreeAgent (1tb) external hard drive, which I want to use mainly to transfer files from my OS X 10.5.6 Mac. It's been formatted for Windows though, I ...

...format the drive using the disk utility whch can be found under applications and then utilities once opened choose your drive in the left hand window and on the right hand side click on erase. If you ...

drive format) system. Unfortunately, if you reformat the disc to a Windows compatible format, you will lose your current backup. The drive will be as a large media transfer disc but not for the backup

Drive on a PC and MAC better format it on your MAC Computer thru disc Utility and choose MS-DOS. This should solve the problem. Mac has the ability to recognize a FAT, NTFS and MAC File System for the

...switchs set to master or auto-detect? Once that is done, you might try to find an older DOS 6.2 setup disk 1, and use FDisk, to low level format the drive to FAT32 format, then put Windows back on