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1. #How to format seagate drive for mac and windows how to#
2. #How to format seagate drive for mac and windows mac os x#
3. #How to format seagate drive for mac and windows windows#

HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE FOR MAC AND PC INSTALL

The GoFlex line of drives includes an NTFS driver, which can make NTFS file systems usable in MacOS.

See Document ID: 219103 for more information.

#How to format seagate drive for mac and windows windows#

This is the best solution Seagate offers for transferring data between Windows and Mac computers. You may also format your external drive into FAT32 for use between Windows and Mac computers. See Document ID: 200895 for instructions. It is only possible to read FAT and FAT32 formatted drives in a Macintosh with OS 10.2 or earlier. Using a FAT32 formatted drive within the Macintosh environment is only recommended for a short period of time to transfer data.ĭata corruption will possibly occur when using FAT32 over an extended period of time in a Macintosh. Also keep in mind, that you will have a 4 GB file transfer limitation.

#How to format seagate drive for mac and windows mac os x#

HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE FOR MAC AND PC MAC OS Xĭo not use NTFS formatted drives.įor non-GoFlex drives, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or later works with local NTFS-formatted volumes, but the volume will be read-only. You will be able to copy data from, but not to, the external hard drive. With FAT32, it is recommended that the volume/partition size of the external hard drive not exceed 32 GB. Please also see the following Apple article: How to transfer data from a PC to a Macintosh If you have an NTFS formatted disk, you must use another method to transfer the data from the Mac computer to the NTFS formatted external drive. HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE FOR MAC AND PC HOW TO Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drives includes the Paragon driver, which can make NTFS file systems usable in MacOS. Please see Document ID: 219103 for instructions on installing it. This is the best solution Seagate offers for transferring data between Windows and Mac computers.įor non-GoFlex drives, Windows does not support the Macintosh file system and it cannot be read. However, Macintosh and Windows can read the FAT32 file system. Using a FAT32 formatted drive within the Macintosh environment is only recommended for a short period of time to transfer data. It is recommended that you divide the drive in 32GB volumes/partitions and format as FAT32.ĭata corruption will be prevalent when using FAT32 over an extended period of time in a Macintosh. Using a third-party disk utility that allows you to see Macintosh formatted volumes is an alternative to using FAT32 file system for the external hard drive.