:07 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Trying to format a Seagate drive
Hi.
My wife gave me a Seagate 5 TB drive, only it comes Win 32 partitioned, with
their Windows backup software installed on a small partition. Thus, the drive
does not want to erase and repartition in Mac so I
Hi,
In Disk Utility, make sure that the 5 TB Seagate item is selected. Select
Partition from the ToolBar. Choose one partition from the number of partitions
menu and make sure that the format is set to MacOS Extended (Journaled). Press
the Options button and make sure it is set to a GUID Par
Can you give us some more information please? What steps did you take to erase
the disk?
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
>
> Hi.
> My wife gave me a Seagate 5 TB drive, only it comes Win 32 partitioned, with
> their Windows backup software installed on a small partition. T
Hi.
My wife gave me a Seagate 5 TB drive, only it comes Win 32 partitioned, with
their Windows backup software installed on a small partition. Thus, the drive
does not want to erase and repartition in Mac so I can use it for Time Machine.
Every time I try to Erase I get a fail message. Anyone
