Select Partition to finish the formatting process You’ll get the following window advising you that this is a data destructive process and any data currently on the drive will be deleted.ġ0. Select Options and select GUID Partition Table

Change Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)ħ. Next to name you will see untitled 1 where you can name the drive.Ħ. Select Partition Layout and select 1 partitionĥ.

Select the Partition tab on the right hand side of the Disk Utility WindowĤ. Select the Seagate drive on the left that shows the capacityģ. Open Disk UtilityApplications >Utilities > Disk UtilitiesĢ. Now without further ado, here’s how you reformat the drive:ġ. Or, if you’ve already got one of our Backup Plus for Mac units I mentioned above, and want to use that device with a PC, then you’ll want to install the following driver accessible here. If this is the case, it’s ideal to keep the drive in the original NTFS format and and simply add the “NTFS for Mac OS” driver, which you can download here. But before starting, it’s worth pointing out that with Seagate Backup Plus drives it’s not necessary to format the drive for Mac if you plan on using the drive between a Mac and Windows OS. This article will give you a step-by-step breakdown on how to format any drive to read and write using Mac OS. But sometimes a little help is needed, if you decide to start using your Windows drive mainly on your new Mac. Seagate Backup Plus comes in a couple varieties - one pre-formatted for Mac, the other pre-formatted for Windows but also readable on Mac. Like the commercials of years gone by, some people are PCs and others are Macs.

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