Select your external hard drive or USB flash drive from the list on the left.Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).
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How To Format Seagate Hard Drive For Both Mac And Windows Format a drive using Disk Utility on a Mac If you know you’ll be using computers running updated versions of these operating systems, exFAT is the clear best choice. Any Mac running 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion) supports exFAT, while PCs running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows 7 are compatible. Awesome, it’s perfect! Almost… since exFAT is fairly new, it isn’t compatible with older Macs and PCs. The exFAT file system eliminates the two major deficiencies of FAT32: the largest partition and file sizes it supports are virtually unlimited by today’s standards. If I wanted to use it with Mac OS or Time Machine backup (which is my intent), I’ll need to format the drive for my Mac. It brought me to a webpage on Seagate’s site, where it clearly indicated the drive was initially set up to work with a Windows PC.Before sending it away, I want to make sure all the data on it has been permanently erased. How to Format Seagate External Hard Drive under Mac OS? By Shirly Chen, 'Hi, anyone can tell me how to format a Seagate external hard drive on Mac? I am going to sell my 2TB Seagate external hard drive.How to Convert a Mac-Formatted Drive to a Windows Drive Chris Hoffman Updated July 10, 2017, 10:23pm EDT Macs format drives with Apple’s HFS+ file system, which Windows won’t recognize or access without third-party software.Seagate branded external drives come preformatted, some for PCs, some for Macs, and some of them have special utilities.
But in order for the computer and drive to talk to one another, the drive has to be formatted.