They might be different if your Mac is on a relatively new macOS version. Note: The tutorial and screenshots below are based on an older version of macOS. How to Format an External Drive for MacĪs explained above, you need to format your drive from NTFS to Mac OS Extended. The problem is that on macOS, you can’t work with files saved on an NTFS drive unless you use a third-party app which usually costs money. What is NTFS? I’m not going to explain here you can read more on Wikipedia. It showed this format: Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS) I then right-clicked the external drive icon on Mac desktop > Get Info. If I wanted to use it with Mac OS or Time Machine backup (which is my intent), I’ll need to format the drive for my Mac. It brought me to a webpage on Seagate’s site, where it clearly indicated the drive was initially set up to work with a Windows PC.
Since I wanted to use it on Mac, I clicked the blue logo with the text “Start_Here-Mac”. When I opened it, the default content was all there. When I connected the Seagate to my Mac, the drive icon showed up like this.
I bought a brand new 2TB Seagate Expansion to backup my MacBook Pro before I updated it to the latest macOS. Most External Hard Drives Are Initiated with NTFSĭuring the last several years, I’ve used a few external drives, including a 500GB WD My Passport, 32GB Lexar flash drive, and a few others. How to Partition an External Hard Drive on Mac.How to Format an External Drive for Mac.Most External Hard Drives Are Initiated with NTFS.Is there any chance of data recovery? TIA. I used a different connector, and that didn't help. I unplugged it while the computer was off, and then restarted, and then plugged it back in, and that didn't help. I tried restarting a few times, which did not help. Upon restarting my computer, the Mac won't recognize my external hard drive in Finder or in Disk Utility.
So, I manually shut it down with the power button. All applications stopped responding, force quit worked but the spinning wheel of death remained and couldn't open any new programs. Once I was finished with it, I clicked "eject" and the spinning wheel of death came up. original issue- I was accessing my perfectly good, relatively new external hard drive on my Macbook Pro. use the following 2 commands: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2s2 diskutil eject /dev/disk2s2 Eject was successful! Unplugged it, replugged it back in, and eureka! All of my files safely stored. Identify the disk you would like to unmount (for me it was disk2s2) 4. SOLVED! For posterity for anyone who might Google this in the future, this is what works: 1.
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