It is available to wipe Seagate hard drive that operating system installed on by wiping hard drive from BIOS using AOMEI Partition Assistant. This is the detailed tutorial on how to wipe Seagate external hard disk drive. If what you need to reset is Seagate external SSD, refer to the following context. Reset Seagate SSD to factory settings.

I have 2 Seagate Slim external hard drives, a 1 TB and a 2 TB. After having trouble having the MacBook Pro (2013) running Sierra 10.12.3, I downloaded the driver off of the Seagate site. Now the computer can recognize and open the drive. I formatted both drives using disk utility. All well and good except Time Machine does not work on either drive. It works on my very old (2008) 360GB Seagate external drive though. Time Machine tells me it cannot find or use the drive as the need to be formatted, yet both were. So, now all I can do is copy and paste from the computer to the drive instead of Time Machine. Any ideas how to get Time Machine to work?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS Sierra (10.12.2)

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Seagate Drive Settings For Mac Os

The Seagate Drive Settings application for MacOS is included on the GoFlex for Mac series of drives. Simply double-click it to install the software. This download page provides a way to recover it if the software was deleted. Connect the GoFlex for Mac drive. Have some basic checks. Sometimes, the Seagate Backup Plus drive won't mount on Mac is due to. Give your Seagate Backup Plus a Name. You’ll find it useful to give your Seagate Backup Plus drive a. In El Capitan OSX - How to install and use a Seagate backup plus, Slim, Central,fast, 200gb 300gb 400gb 500gb 1tb, 2tb, 3tb, 4tb, 5tb, 6tb 7tb 8tb 9b 10tb 20.

Treat the 2 uses differently.

A) you do not need to use any drivers for the disk. You can format the disk for Mac use with the Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility.

B) to backup your Mac for the upgrade, format the drive as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) disk drive. This will NOT be readable by Windows, but you can reformat for that task after you upgrade.

Use a Mac backup utility to copy your Mac's data to the external disk. Disk Utility -> Restore can be used to copy your entire system to the external disk, just specify the external disk as the destination for the Restore.

Or you can use SuperDuper (free for a full clone, you only pay if you want the incremental and scheduling features). I think there are older versions available for 10.5

Or Carbon Copy Cloner (free 1 month fully enabled demo). I think there are older versions available for 10.5

Seagate Drive Settings For Mac

C) After you have performed your upgrade and your data is safe, you can choose to blow away the contents of the external disk and reformat it as a Windows exFAT drive that can be read by both Mac and Windows. NOTE: Some Mac file attributes may not transfer, but that would only matter if you were trying to use the exFAT formatted drive as a Mac backup device. But as a file transfer device or a device for storing documents, pictures, movies (data, not programs), then exFAT is OK for that.

If you want to transfer data to Windows first, then just create the exFAT first, transfer your data, then reformat for Mac backup and upgrade.

Seagate Drive Settings For Mac Catalina

NOTE: you should be able to use file sharing between the Mac and the Windows system for transferring files.