Hi,how can i format my seagate freeagent goflex 750 to fat32 ?

If the Seagate hard drive has been formatted on a PC in NTFS then the MAC cannot read and write to this hard drive.
To exchange data between the PC and MAC then the Seagate hard drive needs to be formatted on a PC in FAT32 not NTFS.

It can be easy if it is External drive. Just plug it and go to:
Right Click on My Computer
Disk Management
Find Seagate 300tb drive and format it.

If You are using it with your pc. Tou have to install Windows again to reformat it. Just follow Windows installation process and delete the logical drives and repartition it again. Good Luck.

might be write protected check the settings to see that files accepted include mac files and that admin rights allow for modification

we can assume this drive was formatted for mac, right?

The problem is that Windows doesn't format anything larger than 32GB as FAT32. You need to use a specific tool to do so. Have a look at this website

Hi,
Welcome to Fixya. Can you pleae provide the make and model of the blueray device so that we can check if the file format of the blueray device is NTFS or FAT32. By default external hard drive is set to NTFS. A good example of this one is a PS3. Ps3 can only detect a hard drive that is a Fat32 fotmat so incase you connect a NTFS hard drive it wont detect it.
Thanks

Connect your harddrive to computer then in my computer note down the drive letter. Then in command prompt type below. format g: where G: assume as your harddrive letter then format. Also in task manager first end unknown process then try to format. Let me know if you need further assistance. Thanks for using FixYa.

Did you reformat the FreeAgent drive when you backed up the Mac? If you use Time Machine or other backup software for the Mac, you had to reformat the drive. If you want the PC to read the disc, it must be formatted in a FAT32 or NTFS file system. The Mac OS formats discs in the HFS+ (extended hard 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 images. This site, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pcarbo/macnexstar.html , has information on splitting the hard drive into two partitions, one HFS+ and one FAT32. Then you could have your backup on one part of the GoFlex and still transfer files from the Mac to the PC and vice versa.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

You're right - FAT32 is the answer. This site has the full solution:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4486548_use-regular-external-hard-drive.html

Windows Disk Management can only format a hard drive less than 32 GB to FAT32. If you want to format your 500GB drive to Fat 32, you need to use third party program like AOMEI Partition Assistant. http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html

For a MAC to use an external Hard drive, the hard drive has to be formatted FAT32 file system. That is the only file system MAC sees.