Will a Seagate FreeAgent Go portable HD for PC work on a Mac?

[Prhymeate]

I have this drive: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/pro.../freeagent_go/

which says on it "Auto backup, encrypt and sync software for PC".There is also a Mac version here:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/pro...eagent_go_mac/


I don't have my mac yet, it's on it's way. I wanted to know if I can just use my current 'for pc' drive in my mac if I connect it up and format it? I can't tell if the difference between the pc and mac versions is just to do with how they are pre formatted and the software that comes with them, or if i can just format the pc version with my mac and use that.

Basically, I just want my music and videos on a portable drive that I can move between my mac and pc. Is there a better way?

[Hellhammer]

It's will work perfectly. The only difference is that PC version comes with some PC crapware and Mac version comes with Mac crapware. Those apps are totally useless, OS X has everything you need already

[Prhymeate]

Thanks I just noticed that one other difference between the pc and mac version is the mac one also comes with firewire. Still, as long as I can use my current one I don't mind too much.

[Love]

Everything will work just fine, just be careful and make sure that it's either formatted FAT32 or Mac OS X Extended (Journaled), as you will not be able to write to an NTFS drive with a Mac.

[Hellhammer]

Originally Posted by Love

Everything will work just fine, just be careful and make sure that it's either formatted FAT32 or Mac OS X Extended (Journaled), as you will not be able to write to an NTFS drive with a Mac.

With NTFS-3G you can

[waw74]

Originally Posted by Love

Everything will work just fine, just be careful and make sure that it's either formatted FAT32 or Mac OS X Extended (Journaled), as you will not be able to write to an NTFS drive with a Mac.

and don't use hfs-plus (Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)) if you want to be able to access the drive directly from windows.

unless you want to buy macdrive

[Hellhammer]

Originally Posted by waw74

and don't use hfs-plus (Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)) if you want to be able to access the drive directly from windows.

unless you want to buy macdrive

HFSExplorer is free alternative

[davidoff123]

Okay, so i'm planning to buy a Seagate FreeAgent Go portable disc to use with my PC and Mac.

What are the options here? I either need FAT32 (witch sucks) or OSX Extended?

Will my Windows 7 PC will recognize the OSX Extended drive?

And... what about NTFS-3G how do I use that on my Mac and PC?

[MisterMe]

Originally Posted by davidoff123

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Will my Windows 7 PC will recognize the OSX Extended drive?

And... what about NTFS-3G how do I use that on my Mac and PC?

Windows can read and write Apple's HFS+ format with the help of third party commercial software MacDrive. Virtually every Winodws computer in the installed base reads and writes NTFS. NTFS-3G allows MacOS X to read, write, and format NTFS drives. With it, my Mac can format thumb drives as NTFS--something that none of my Windows computers can do.