Seagate Backup Plus For Mac On Windows

I'm having an issue with my Seagate backup plus for mac. It is an external hard drive and when I tried to find a place to post this on Seagate, I could not find one. I'm also not able to access any of the files on it - when I click to open the hard drive on my desktop, it freezes up in finder until the disk is ejected. Your Backup Plus Desktop is formatted as NTFS for compatibility with Windows out of the box. Therfore, you can connect Backup Plus Desktop to a Windows PC without formatting the hard drive. However, NTFS is not fully compatible with Mac computers.

• Step 1 Connect the Seagate external “for Mac” drive to the Windows computer. The drive must be connected to the computer during installation; otherwise the installation will not complete.

• Step 2 Download the file HFS4WIN.exe to your Windows computer. Export outlook 2016 mac. • Step 3 Double-click on the HFS4WIN.exe file to start the installation. • Step 4 Follow the Wizard prompts to complete the installation.

• Step 5 Reboot the computer. • Step 6 The Seagate “for Mac” drive displays in (My) Computer and Windows/File Explorer as a drive letter (for example, E:).

I can't seem to just drag and drop files I want to store on an external hardrive with Seagate. I just want a simple drag and drop so I can free up some space on my computer. Can someone please explain how to just drag and drop files? I have zero idea, and they don't make it simple to understand. Please explain it to me (without use of computer terminology or telling me places I should go on my computer that I don't know what they are. Renders your help useless, and it's frustrating because no matter how many times I ask this, you just give me help i can't understand anyway.) If possible, use step by step instructions, if you need to tell me to go somewhere on my computer, tell me where that is too so I know where to go.

Don't be vague, I can't understand vague instructions when i read them. If you bought your external 1TB HD from a store other than Apple Store, it's likely formatted for Windows (NTFS) and you need to reformat it to Apple (UNIX): 1.Be sure your drive is attached and mounted. 2.If you have already written any data to the drive, back it up before proceeding to the next step. 3.In the Finder, choose Go > Utilities. The /Applications/Utilities folder will open.

4.Launch Disk Utility. 5.Click the icon for your external hard drive in the sidebar on the left. 6.Click the Erase tab along the top of the window. 7.From the Volume Format menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

8.Enter a name for the external hard drive in the Name field. 9.Click the Erase button.

Hello computer people. I just bought a seagate backup plus slim 1T drive, on 11/26/14. At first i was unable to drag and drop. After putzing about for over two hours, looking on this help forum and on others, i noticed on seagate's home page for my product a download link for 'NTFS driver for mac os' it was an installer for some 3rd party program which allows NTSF ( not suitable for work?

No, its some kind of formatting ) devices to be read AND WRITTEN to on mac os. I installed it, restarted my computer, and then I could drag and drop ( aka write). PROBLEM SOLVED But why did this take so long?!! Because; While installing the seagate backup plus on my mac originally, i was given two options; 1- format it for use on windows AND mac 2- format it for mac ONLY I chose option one, because i use a mac AND a pc, and i want to move files between the two, which is what this drive is advertised to do! But instead of say, mentioning on the box -- or in the instruction booklet, or on their own help pages on their website -- that you need to download this file if your mac does not already have it for some unknown unlikely reason, Seagate merely list it as a download on their website with no intuitive obvious description of what it is or why you might need it.

My theory on why they don't broadcast this crucial information? 1- they are known to have poor customer service, in general. 2- 'Use between Mac and Windows' is much catchier ad copy than ' Use between Mac and Windows if you have NTFS driver for Mac OS installed!' I, like many non-tech people, find my eyes glazing over when i read words such as driver, reformatting or partition. So, better to keep the ad copy simple for a quick sale and then let the customer fumble around pulling out their hair for hours after the purchase. Keep it classy Seagate, keep it classy.