External Harddisk doesn't work on MacBook Air

[swadhwani]

Hello Folks,

I have a 500 GB seagate external drive which I was using with windows. It had some issues and I believe a friend of mine tried fixing it using his Mac but failed.



I don't have any data init and I want it to work in my new MacBook Pro. On connecting to MacBook, I can see it in disk utilities, but while trying to erase it failed.



Could you suggest what should I do?



Thanks

Sail

 

[ActionableMango]

This is the Mac Pro (desktop) forum. You might get more appropriate help in the MacBook or OS X forums.

In any case, is there an error message of any kind that you can show here? Does the external enclosure have any kind of write-protection switch?

 

[h9826790]

A little suggestion, if you can provide a screen capture / failure message / code / etc, that will make the others easier to help.

 

[flyinmac]

Did you just try to erase it?

Try repartitioning it.

Choose to change the partition. New single partition. Change the type to GUID in options. And format as HFS / OS X Journaled.

It's probably currently an NTFS partition, which the Mac can't write to. Hence cannot erase. But the Mac can repartition it and start over.

 

[elf69]

can try paragon ntfs driver free trial see if can read.

but as above repartition.

screen help too.