This means that your Backup Plus takes its power from your iMac or MacBook.Īnd if you’re low on battery power then plug your Macinto external power. Whether you have an Ultra Touch, Slim or Portable your hard drive is powered by its USB cable.
Then plug your USB cable into your Seagate Backup Plus first. If you have documents on the drive either from aWindows PC or from your Mac, copy them off first. Know that formatting deletes all the information on the drive.
#PARAGON NTFS FOR MAC 10.7 NOT SHOWING SEAGATE HOW TO#
You can learn more about Seagate Backup Plus on this site by clicking on the picture above How to Format your Seagate Backup Plus for Macīefore you jump in and format your Seagate Backup Plus on your Mac or Macbook. Or Format your Seagate Backup Plus on your Mac.Īnd in this article I tell you all about it.And you can find out about it in my article here. How can you make this portable external drive workwith your Mac? To backup your Mac for the upgrade, format the drive as a Mac OS Extended. Also, I would like to be able to use the same drive to transfer some of my stuff to PC. Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system from 10.5.8, but would first like to back up using a Seagate Backup Plus drive.
Question: Q: Using Seagate Backup Plus with MAC OS 10.5.8. You have to if it comes with an NTFS format, because Mac OS X can only read but not write to hard drives using that format (at least out of the box, although you can buy Paragon NTFS or use a free tool such as Mounty for that, but you will have to. But it says that it works with a Windows PC only. You’ve looked at buying a Seagate Backup Plus – Ultra Touch, Slim or Portable.
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