Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc.

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Comments

From Rose
2010-12-29 08:51:21

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I'm terrible with computers and technology, so your step-by-step guide was REALLY helpful!

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From Candyce
2010-12-29 20:52:29

Thank you so much! Will I still be able to use the external HD on my PC? I will be transferring files from both my mac and PC.

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From Admin
2011-01-03 15:04:14

Candyce,you would be able to use it on your PC, however you would need to format it as NTFS or FAT in order for the PC to see it. Windows can not read the Mac OS extended format by default.

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From Paige
2011-01-16 10:22:39

For use with a PC, would this work? Once you've formatted it with one partition (per your instructions), could you go back and partition it with at least one partition that is FAT32? For example, select one partition 1.5 TB with GUID, and then a second 500 GB with FAT 32?

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From Admin
2011-01-18 09:05:42

Paige, yes you could do that configuration, however you would need to do this at the time of format or you will need to reformat the drive again if you already have on partition on it. There are some commercial and open source tools that will allow you to change a partition map after the fact, but in this case where the drive is external, it's easier to just copy all of the data off then reformat.

Also, as long as you a running a modern Windows OS (2000 - Windows 7), you would want to use NTFS instead of FAT.

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From Dennis
2011-02-06 02:34:49

Thanks for this one. Easy as it comes, you rock!

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From Vitor
2011-02-09 12:10:33

Thanks MAN!

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From Donagh
2011-02-14 14:26:09

Thanks, a great reminder as I did this before but couldn't remember the exact steps.

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From reina
2011-04-28 06:56:42

OMG this is amazing THANK YOU!!

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From Geoff
2011-05-19 11:26:01

This is really helpful. I was stuck trying to figure out how to use this Seagate Expansion drive with my Mac Snow Leopard OS. Thanks!

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From Cameron
2011-06-21 11:22:46

Thanks! Now is there a way of reading NTFS on a drive thru a mac using OSX? My hd now has all my info but is read only (NTFS) is there a way I can reformatt to be read/writable with my info still on there?

Thanks for the help

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From Nathan
2011-07-27 17:21:11

Thanks for the post! I'll reformat my next Seagate Expansion drive with the GUID option on.

@cameron - You can use MacFUSE to read/write to the NTFS volume. The performance using the free version isn't excellent but it'll get the job done well.

As for reformatting, you'll need to copy the information off, reformat then copy the info back.

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From Kevin
2011-07-28 06:30:18

Many, many thanks for the post, your valuable information worked like a dream. thanks once again!

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From Dude
2011-07-31 14:39:42

Thnx for that I was thinking for ages how to do it.
cheers ears

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From Kate
2011-08-17 05:41:50

Thank you SOOOOOOOO much for this! I don't have ANY knowledge about this stuff so I felt like I was googling in the dark but low and behold I find this easy to follow guide and now my expansion drive WORKS!! YAY!

p.S. I was a scared when a popup said "this will delete X and replace it with Y.. but it was fine in the end.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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From kupo_yo
2011-08-20 15:32:30

AWESOME! Thank you for posting this, I just got the drive today.

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From Patrick
2011-08-20 18:46:22

Thank you so much for helping me find a solution to a nagging problem. I just bought my first Mac since OS Lion was released and this helped me enjoy it very much indeed!

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From Alina
2011-09-06 11:40:26

SO helpful!

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From Tracey
2011-10-13 16:51:08

Thanks you so much! Your time and expertise is really appreciated!

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From Kary
2011-11-01 13:50:24

You are a complete star! Thank you so much for the guide!

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From MisterKnowbody
2011-12-18 08:02:43

Thanks Brother, Mr. K

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From SuperCub
2011-12-19 15:19:37

Thank you for the rescue!

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From Catherine
2012-01-27 17:58:17

Many thanks for this!

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From ace4631
2012-02-05 20:38:22

Thank you so, so much for this! I was seriously getting ready to toss the drive!

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From
2012-02-14 17:26:01

Thank you so much! I thought the disk was faulty or something, getting ready to give it up as a lost cause. You've officially saved the day.

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