5 Tb Seagate Hard Drive

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Robert

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Aug 4, 2024, 11:30:56 PM8/4/24

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Ive been using an external hard drive for my photography, and it's been working fine for the last 3 weeks, connecting reading/writing, everything the way a drive should work. Well, yesterday, it stopped connecting. I plug it into a windows computer and it shows up there, so it's not damaged. I haven't reformatted this drive in any way, it is still registered as exFAT so I can use it on both windows and Mac. But, it will not show up on my Mac. I have tried different cables, different USB-C hubs, USB-C to USB- A adapters, but as I said it is being recognized on a windows computer, so the cables are fine.

If you need to use an adapter with the drive to connect to your Mac, then are you also using this adapter on the Windows system? Even if you are, you may need to try another adapter and even a different cable.

Did you receive this drive new and was it already formatted as exFAT? It is usually best to use Disk Utility on macOS to erase the whole physical external drive as GUID partition and exFAT in order to minimize problems. Windows systems may format exFAT with file allocation sizes which are not compatible with macOS. Personally I always erase every brand new drive even if it ships from the factory with a file system I will end up using anyway because you never know what may be hidden on the drive or whether the factory file system is good.

If so, then try booting into Safe Mode to see whether macOS will see the drive. If Safe Mode works, then it most likely means you have some third party software installed which is interfering with the normal operation of macOS. Usual culprits are anti-virus apps, cleaning/optimizer apps, and third party security software....none of which are needed on a Mac.

if you run the first aid it will only checks if there are any errors bugs on your external hard drive it will not erase your data . have you figured out the problem by now? I have similar problem as you my external hard drive was mounting ok afew days ago , it doestnt work any more on ventura 13.3.1 . I have tried mounting it on other Mac lapotps external hard drive works fine

"Seagate External Hard drive not being recognized anymore, not sure what to try next.: what worked for me at the end was I went to setting>>login item >>allow in the background >>disabled most of the softwares . Then rebooted my laptop and the external hard drive finally showed again

I have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive and recently it stopped mounting on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2012), currently running El Capitan Beta 5. It refuses to show up in Finder or Disk Utility, but the drive itself lights up like it is connected. I have another drive that I use for Time Machine, which shows up just fine.

It works, however, on Windows PCs and OS X Yosemite latest version. I plan to submit a bug on this but I thought I'd get some community help on this issue as well, to see if there is anything else I can do to make it work.

My solution: Since I had another Seagate drive that I needed to reformat anyways, I did a little research and found that the exFAT format works better for Mac/PC interop. As soon as the format was done on my Windows machine, I ran back to my Mac and plugged that drive in and -- what do you know -- it worked!!

For Future Reference: Advice to anyone who buys a Seagate NTFS-based ext. hard drive and plans to use it with a Mac, first thing before you put any data on it -- REFORMAT it to exFAT - it will save you a lot of trouble later.

This doesn't solve the issue that El Capitan, especially with the later betas, seems to refuse to show any NTFS drives anymore. This may be a bug, and I'll keep my issue open, but it's worth taking note that there's a better way to do file systems on ext. hard drives.

That's because the whole point of this issue is the drive was not recognized by the Mac OS X El Capitan in the first place. It's like it didn't exist from the system's point of view. Even in Disk Utility. So reformatting from Disk Utility didn't help. So, I turned to my Windows computer, which did recognize the existence of the drive, and reformatted it to exFAT. If you want easy interop between systems, exFAT is the way to go.

I recently bought a Seagate for Mac 1 TB external hard drive. When I connect to my MacBook through the FireWire, it works fine, but I also have media on my Dell laptop which is running Windows Vista. When I connect the hard drive to that laptop using the USB cable, Windows doesn't recognize it. What am I doing wrong?

I'm not affiliated with Paragon. I just bought a Seagate drive to use on a Mac I just acquired though I've always had Windows machines. I've given them both a quick test and they seem to work well, but I haven't put them to extensive use this far.

If it is Mac OS Extended or a something similar then your disk is using the HFS+ file system, which is the default for OS X. This file system type is not natively supported by Windows, which is why the disk will not mount when you plug it into your laptop.

Reformat the disk to FAT32, which (as suggested by Michael Sturm) is the lowest common denominator in file systems between OS X and Windows. In addition to limitation to file sizes Create a FAT32 partition on the disk along side the existing HFS+ partition. This could be used to move data between the Mac and the Windows machine, but would suffer from all the same FAT32 issues mentioned above.

Look at additional software which will allow for either NTFS or HFS+ to be read on OS X and Windows respectively. On the Mac, this can be accomplished using add-ons related to the MacFuse project. You should choose the filesystem that you plan on using most frequently so that it is as fast as possible and then reformat the disk accordingly. Using additional software like this will probably create a performance hit, but how noticeable it is depends on your usage pattern.

Depends on the filesystem type and partitioning scheme whether it'll work on both. If the hard drive were formatted for HFS it would not show up on the Windows Computer. If the Partition Scheme were Apple Partition Map, it would also not show up.

I am a wedding photographer desperately looking for help. I use a Seagate 2TB hard drive to house my RAW files in one place before editing. Luckily I have them backed up and also on the SD cards but recently when I plugged in this particular hard-drive into my PC I got an error saying BitLocker has encrypted it and I need a passcode or a key. I have never set up BitLocker on this computer at all and can not find anything about it on this computer. I also have troubleshot going into my Microsoft account looking for the recovery key since everyone has told me it has to be there but there is nothing registered to this device. I have a consult call with Microsoft and they said that they do not see BitLocker on my account either. I contacted Seagate but they said that they do not support the encryption service on their drives because it is exclusively through Microsoft? But I am beginning to believe that is not the case because when I plug it into any other windows based computer it shows the same error and on my Apple, it does not even mount to the desktop. I have exhausted all my options and I am very frustrated with Microsoft. Any helpful tips would be amazing! An no I have never plugged it in to another Windows computer

If you didn't connect it anywhere else and there's no recovery key to be found, you will need to format the drive and restore from backup.

The recovery key could of course be still retrievable if you only knew who encrypted it on your machine. If you are the only person with access to your machine, it should have been you, but you say you haven't and online there's no key, so the only possible explanation to my mind is that someone played a trick on you when your machine was left unattended.

If you have a modern device that supports automatic device encryption then the driver might have been encrypted automatically. If you are sure if you have not connected the PC to any domain or organization you can try disabling the secure boot in the Pc and try opening the hard disk.

I am having the same issue. Has anyone been able to locate their recovery key? Please help. I got a new computer and now my seagate external hard drive says it's encrypted. I have tried every password I have ever had and none work. I just need all the pictures on my hard drive.

I have a 1tb Seagate external hard drive that I have had for a little while and it used to work fine, but my laptop is now not recognizing it when I plug it in. It has a usb and it has its own plug for power. I have not used it in a little while and wanted to transfer some files over (pictures, movies etc) and now my laptop is not recognizing it. I am not a laptop/ computer whiz so any help would be much appreciated.