How To Format Lacie Rugged For Mac And Pc

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How to format lacie rugged for mac and pc.

Lacie setup assistant helps you to quickly format the storage device according to your needs. 1 connect my lacie to my pc and formatted it in ntfs format. Learn a few ways to make your drive mac and pc friendly. The lacie worked fine on my mac and my pc saw it but i couldn t access it.

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. Using the usb 3 0 cable that comes in. Choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. 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. Windows doesn t like mac format so you can reform the drive but it s a bit late for that. 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.

Read the information below if you. Connect the drive to your. The hard drive wasn t recognized by our mac computer. You can use lacie setup assistant to format your lacie hard drive when it is first connected to a computer mac or windows.

Posted by ant on march 11th. 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. Detailed steps for setting up lacie hard drive for mac backup. Right now my boyfriend may have a real bad virus on his pc but doesnt have an external hard drive of his own.

How to format a drive for mac and pc compatibility. Lacie rugged secure is delivered formatted in exfat for compatibility with both windows and mac computers. We just opened our lacie rugged all terrain hard disk. Aborted lacie setup assistant while it was formatting.

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. To use the lacie drive for my mac backup automated by mac s inbuilt time machine software. 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. The hard drive had read more.

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.