How To Format Lacie Rugged For Mac And Pc

Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs.

How to format lacie rugged for mac and pc.

The hard drive had read more. Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers. How to format a drive for mac and pc compatibility. Here are the results.

To have part of the lacie drive to be compatible with windows so i can exchange files between the two operating systems should the need arise. 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. 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. The disk gets ejected.

Learn a few ways to make your drive mac and pc friendly. Detailed steps for setting up lacie hard drive for mac backup. 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. Right now my boyfriend may have a real bad virus on his pc but doesnt have an external hard drive of his own.

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. We took it in to macnet on maui and the technician said to contact you. 1 connect my lacie to my pc and formatted it in ntfs format. We just opened our lacie rugged all terrain hard disk.

1 connection with usb2 0 from lacie to mac it works can read and write to lacie formatted in ntfs 2 connection with firewire 800 from lacie to mac it does not work. There used to sw for windows that would fix this. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows. Using the usb 3 0 cable that comes in.

2 installed paragon ntfs onto my mac 3 connected lacie to mac. To use the lacie drive for my mac backup automated by mac s inbuilt time machine software. I would just connect the two machines with an ethernet cable set one as a server and copy the data over pier to pier. The hard drive wasn t recognized by our mac computer.

Read the information below if you. Choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. Connect the drive to your. The lacie worked fine on my mac and my pc saw it but i couldn t access it.

Posted by ant on march 11th.