Seagate external Drive compatibility

how to make Seagate Backup Plus Portable external drive compatible with MacOS BigSur 11.1?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Jan 23, 2021 11:13 AM

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Jan 23, 2021 11:43 AM in response to 2Cor5-7

Use Disk Utility to Erase it, format it as APFS with a GUID partition table.

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Jan 23, 2021 12:16 PM in response to neuroanatomist

Thank you!

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