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I just bought a seagate backup drive, but when I plugged it in to my mac, it says in disk utility that it's in NTFS format. What can I do? Can I format it in apple format? How would I do that?
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
Open Disk Utility in your Applications> Utilities folder.
Click on View in the menubar and select Show All Devices.
In the left hand panel select the Seagate Drive under External
highlight the upper Disk and not the indented Volume.
Click Erase,
give the Disk a name,
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Scheme: GUID Partition Map.
click Erase.
That will reformat your Seagate drive for use with Macs
If you need to use this drive between Macs and windows PCs
then as above but
Format: exFAT,
Scheme: Master Boot Record.
Open Disk Utility in your Applications> Utilities folder.
Click on View in the menubar and select Show All Devices.
In the left hand panel select the Seagate Drive under External
highlight the upper Disk and not the indented Volume.
Click Erase,
give the Disk a name,
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Scheme: GUID Partition Map.
click Erase.
That will reformat your Seagate drive for use with Macs
If you need to use this drive between Macs and windows PCs
then as above but
Format: exFAT,
Scheme: Master Boot Record.
In case you miss it… Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
How to format ntfs drive to apple format?
