Seagate Backup For Mac

If you’ve just purchased yourself a new slim Seagate external hard drive to use as a back up for your mac and you get the following error: seagate The backup disk is not in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which is required. It’s a very simple fix and only takes a few moments. Press Command & Space rapidly in unison to bring up Spotlight Search. Type: Disk Utility. Choose the Seagate drive and click erase.

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This will pop up a window to rename the drive. Name it whatever you would like to see when it pops up in Finder. Ensure you have chosen the following settings for the next two drop-downs: Format: OS X Extended (Journaled) Scheme: GUID Partition Map. Click “Erase”. This will create a new instance of this drive with the correct formatting to allow the Seagate drive to be used with Time Machine.

Automatic Backup Step. Connect the Seagate external drive to your PC by plugging the USB cable to the USB port in the rear of the drive and then to an open USB port in your computer. Using your Seagate Backup Plus – either the whole drive or a large enough partition on the Seagate Backup plus as a place to store a copy of everything you have on your Mac is a great way to use the external hard drive. 4 days ago - The Seagate Backup Plus Hub does not have remotely Mac-like styling (although that is less true of the white, specifically Mac-focused model.

Go to System Preferences. Press Command & Space rapidly in unison to bring up Spotlight Search. Type in System Preferences and hit return (enter).

Seagate Backup Plus For Mac Portable Drive

Click on “Time Machine”. Click “Add or Remove Backup Disk”. Remove the original Seagate disk you installed there. Add the newly named Seagate backup disk You’re all set! Citations: http://knowledge.seagate.com/pkbArticleView?id=kA030000000iKvn.