Discover how to use external hard drives to maximize your Mac—from connecting a drive, to managing files, and troubleshooting issues.
If you read my previous post abouthow to format an external drive for Mac, you know that I bought a 2TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive and managed to create two partitions on the disk — one for Mac backup purposes, and the other for personal use. In this article, I’m going t...
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. 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. I then right-clicked ...
Part 2: How to Fix External Hard Drive not showing up on Mac? If you follow the accompanying steps, you will recognize the cause and fix the issue that is preventing your external hard drive not showing up Mac. Fix 1: Check the Connecting Cable The principal or primary thing to do is...
If you need touse an external hard drive on Macthat is not completely compatible with your computer OS and you have the urge toformat hard drive for Mac and PC, you should know there is a more feasible way to make your external hard drives compatible with your Mac and PC. This method...
Bonus Tip: Internal Hard Drive Not Showing Up Verdict In general, a hard drive or flash drive will be recognized and showing up on the desktop automatically after it’s connected to Mac. However, it’s true that there are chances for Mac not reading external hard drive after users connected...
Way 2: Recover Data from Seagate External Hard Drive through Seagate Rescue PlanYou can also use the Seagate Rescue Data Recovery plan to recover data from seagate external hard drive. In this method, you would have to ship your damaged hard drive to the Seagate lab. After your data has ...
There are many different tools that can help you create a byte-to-byte backup of your external hard drive. We recommend Disk Drill because it runs on both Windows and macOS, is highly intuitive to use, and creates reliable and comprehensive backups that you can recover using the same straig...
I'm writing a book and need to connect an external hard drive to my 2017, 27inch iMac to backup my work. It says I have a Thunderbolt drive but I've never attempted to use it. Does it still work and what kind of connector do I need to use it? And, what kind of hard drive ...
How to Delete Files from Seagate/WD/Toshiba External Hard Drive on Mac? This post discusses different ways to delete files from external hard drives on Mac, including permanent deletion, and solutions to try when you fail to delete files.Read more >> ...