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mac does'nt see my HDD
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<blockquote data-quote="erics72" data-source="post: 1593359" data-attributes="member: 316826"><p>It's the drive, not the Mac. Trust me. I've been through this a few times with my own, and friends' drives. If you still have access to a PC, with enough HDD space to back up the Seagate, back up all your files from the Seagate to it (minus the preinstalled software). Once you have it backed up, keep the Seagate connected to your PC, reformat it to FAT32. Load back all the backed up files to the Seagate once it's been reformatted. Plug into your MB, then copy all the files. Done.</p><p></p><p>As I mentioned before, you don't need that bloat ware pre-installed on the Seagate. If all your using your external drive for is storage, and your not going to be using it on PCs, plug to your MB and reformat to Mac Journal Extended. You can keep it at FAT32 if you like. Keeping it formatted to FAT32, will allow your Mac and PC to access the drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="erics72, post: 1593359, member: 316826"] It's the drive, not the Mac. Trust me. I've been through this a few times with my own, and friends' drives. If you still have access to a PC, with enough HDD space to back up the Seagate, back up all your files from the Seagate to it (minus the preinstalled software). Once you have it backed up, keep the Seagate connected to your PC, reformat it to FAT32. Load back all the backed up files to the Seagate once it's been reformatted. Plug into your MB, then copy all the files. Done. As I mentioned before, you don't need that bloat ware pre-installed on the Seagate. If all your using your external drive for is storage, and your not going to be using it on PCs, plug to your MB and reformat to Mac Journal Extended. You can keep it at FAT32 if you like. Keeping it formatted to FAT32, will allow your Mac and PC to access the drive. [/QUOTE]
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