How To Format Lacie Rugged For Mac And Pc

Rather than reformat my g tech which is my primary backup drive i figured it would be easier to reformat the lacie but i m not sure anything i m doing is actually working.

How to format lacie rugged for mac and pc.

To use the lacie drive for my mac backup automated by mac s inbuilt time machine software. Windows doesn t like mac format so you can reform the drive but it s a bit late for that. Using the usb 3 0 cable that comes in. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows.

Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers. The lacie worked fine on my mac and my pc saw it but i couldn t access it. There used to sw for windows that would fix this. Connect the drive to your.

Posted by ant on march 11th. The hard drive had read more. Ok so i bought a lacie rugged as my backup backup drive 2 months ago and i formatted it for mac initially. The instructions below are for windows 10 but other versions of windows from windows 7 and up can also format an external drive as exfat for use with mac as well.

Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting. How to format a drive for mac and pc compatibility. Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. We just opened our lacie rugged all terrain hard disk.

Detailed steps for setting up lacie hard drive for mac backup. Here are the results. Read the information below if you. 1 connect my lacie to my pc and formatted it in ntfs format.

The disk gets ejected. Choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. Can anyone recommend software i can use to partition and format my lacie rugged triple interface hard drive so that it will work between all pc platforms and my mac. If you use the drive with only one type of computer you can optimize file copy performance by formatting the drive in the native file system for your operating system ntfs for windows or hfs for macs.

Right now my boyfriend may have a real bad virus on his pc but doesnt have an external hard drive of his own. The hard drive wasn t recognized by our mac computer. I would just connect the two machines with an ethernet cable set one as a server and copy the data over pier to pier. 2 installed paragon ntfs onto my mac 3 connected lacie to mac.

We took it in to macnet on maui and the technician said to contact you.