How To Format Lacie Rugged For Mac And Pc

Using the usb 3 0 cable that comes in.

How to format lacie rugged for mac and pc.

Right now my boyfriend may have a real bad virus on his pc but doesnt have an external hard drive of his own. Here are the results. Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. Detailed steps for setting up lacie hard drive for mac backup.

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. I would just connect the two machines with an ethernet cable set one as a server and copy the data over pier to pier. Choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. The hard drive had read more.

To use the lacie drive for my mac backup automated by mac s inbuilt time machine software. Posted by ant on march 11th. 1 connect my lacie to my pc and formatted it in ntfs format. Ok so i bought a lacie rugged as my backup backup drive 2 months ago and i formatted it for mac initially.

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. The lacie worked fine on my mac and my pc saw it but i couldn t access it. 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. The disk gets ejected.

We just opened our lacie rugged all terrain hard disk. 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. Windows doesn t like mac format so you can reform the drive but it s a bit late for that. We took it in to macnet on maui and the technician said to contact you.

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. 2 installed paragon ntfs onto my mac 3 connected lacie to mac. The hard drive wasn t recognized by our mac computer.

There used to sw for windows that would fix this. Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows. Read the information below if you.

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.