by Shirly Chen, 2017-02-13
How to format a Seagate hard drive for Mac? How to wipe Seagate hard drive under Mac OS? Do you know the solution to reformat a Seagate hard drive for Mac? Don’t worry! There some easy-to-use utilities can help you format a Seagate hard drive under Mac OS. Just follow these steps to easily format a Seagate hard drive on your Mac.
Easy Steps to Format a Seagate Hard Drive for Mac
Instructions for how to format your external drive so that it will be fully usable in MacOS. These steps can be used for both internal and external drives. Reformatting the drive will erase all data on the drive, so you should copy any data you want off the drive prior to formatting. The following is based on Mac OS X version 10.10.5. Instructions for how to format your external drive so that it will be fully usable in MacOS. These steps can be used for both internal and external drives. Note: Reformatting the drive will erase all data on the drive, so you should copy any data you want off the drive prior to formatting. Seagate Backup Plus Hub is available in two models, Windows and Mac. The Windows model is formatted as NTFS while the Mac model is formatted as Mac OS extended (Journaled), also known as HFS+. While Mac OS X can read hard drives formatted as NTFS, write access is not available.
Step 1: Back up your important data.
Before your format a Seagate hard drive on your Mac, you should check if there are some important files on your Seagate hard drive. Then back up the important files before you format your Seagate hard drive. You can copy your files to another hard drive or back up them to Cloud storage. It is very important to back up your important files before formatting a Seagate hard drive for Mac because the original files will be removed from the Seagate hard drive after formatting.
Step 2: Connect your Seagate hard drive with your Mac.
If you want to format your Seagate hard drive under Mac OS, just connect it with your Mac computer.
Step 3: Format Seagate hard drive with Mac disk formatting apps.
There are two Mac disk formatting applications can help you easily format a Seagate hard drive for Mac. Disk Utility is a built-in app in Mac OS that can help you format external hard drive on your Mac. Super Eraser for Mac is a third-party application that can easily format your Seagate hard drive and thoroughly erase all the data on the Seagate hard drive. I will show you the guide to use the two apps to format a Seagate hard drive for Mac.
Use Disk Utility to for a Seagate hard drive for Mac
This is very easy. Just open Disk Utility on your Mac, you will see all the drives and devices on your Mac computer. Select the Seagate hard drive and click on 'Erase' button. Then disk utility will format your Seagate hard drive and erase all the data. Please note that the erased data by disk utility can be recovered by Mac data recovery software.
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Format Seagate hard drive on Mac with Super Eraser for Mac
Super Eraser for Mac is a very powerful Mac data erasure application. It will not only format the selected hard drive, but it also will permanently destroy & wipe all the data on the hard drive, making data recovery impossible. So Super Eraser for Mac can help you format a Seagate hard drive and permanently erase all data before you resell or donate your Seagate hard drive. The steps are very simple: run Super Eraser for Mac -> select the mode 'Wipe Volume/Device' –> select the Seagate hard drive and click on 'Wipe Now' button.
Then Super Eraser for Mac will completely format your Seagate hard drive under Mac OS and permanently erase all the data on the Seagate hard drive. The formatted data will be permanently lost, can’t be recovered by data recovery software.
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