![]() ![]() Wait till the drive icon has disappeared from your desktop. When your Backup Plus formatting finishes, you can get rid of the Disk Utility window.Īfter formatting, your Seagate Backup Plus drive icon will appear on your Mac computer’s desktop. You’ll be surprised how quickly it finishes. Your Seagate hard drive formatting only takes a short while. Click On Erase To Start Your Backup Plus Formatting. ![]() It doesn’t matter whether you format as Mac OS Extended, APFS or ExFAT, your Mac needs GUID Partition Map as the scheme. Next, for Scheme pick GUID Partition Map. Note that Time Machine can’t use an ExFat formatted Seagate Backup Plus drive for backup. If you’re planning to share the Seagate Backup Plus with a Windows PC choose ExFAT.ĮxFAT is the file system format both a Mac or a Windows computer can understand and use. If your Mac is running an older Mac OS X version then pick Mac OS Extended Journaled. ![]() Time Machine supports a backup to an APFS external hard drive. Or when you want your Seagate Backup Plus for a Time Machine backup of your Mac. Pick either of these formats to copy and paste your documents to the Seagate drive. Then run through the backup steps a second time to pick APFS. To format as APFS you’ll need to format your drive as Mac OS Extended first. You choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Or APFS (Apple File System) if you plan to only use your Backup Plus on your Mac. ![]()
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